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Those kinds of facilities, in addition to the school's more august holdings (it has a Gutenberg Bible and a garden donated by the King of Siam), help give Eton more the air of a university than a high school. That impression is intensified by the precocious self-possession of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dusting Off the Old School Ties | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

I readily admit that I am not the best Catholic or the best liberal. I am very human; thus I am often very wrong. Likewise, the institution of the church has made many mistakes through the centuries. But as the Bible makes clear, any human institution is imperfect because of...

Author: By John D. Staines, | Title: A Liberal in a Conservative Church | 11/14/1990 | See Source »

This relative invisibility, and their middle-class life-style, make Samantha and Jill typical of the estimated 6 million to 13 million lesbians in the U.S. If the higher number is right, about as many women are lesbian as are black and many more than are Hispanic. While a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Couples: The Lesbians Next Door | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

"Family values," explains Jackson. The Eisenhowers treasured what they had -- one another and a fresh land. "Our pleasures were simple -- they included survival" is the way Ike put it. Bible Scripture was read three times a day in the Eisenhower home. Those lessons were reinforced in the town where Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Why We Still Like Ike | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

Who wrote the Pentateuch, the all-important first five books of the Bible? According to ancient Jewish tradition, Moses did. Modern Bible critics hold, however, that various authors long after Moses' time wrote accounts that were later amalgamated into the biblical books. In the latest twist on this "documentary hypothesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ms. Moses | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

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