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Rather than offering a course??exclusively on the Bible, it might be more constructive to offer a survey course on the major faiths: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism. Particularly at this time, a little knowledge of Islam would be most helpful to Americans...
...Soviet Union was being swept by an epidemic as devastating as any Mongol invasion. At least 40 million Soviet citizens (15% of the population) had been laid low with fever, coughing, headaches, aching bones and a lingering lethargy. By all accounts?none of them officially confirmed, of course???the ultimate ranking victim was Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. When his 71st birthday rolled around last week, Brezhnev, who rarely passes up any opportunity to accept honors or congratulations, was nowhere to be seen. In fact, he had canceled all recent appointments. At his last public appearance, at the Kremlin funeral...
Another Middle Easterner who seems to have a conceptual knack for successful bargaining is Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. He handled many of the negotiations with Sadat ?through Kissinger, of course???and has been designated Israel's representative in the disengagement talks with Syria that will begin in Washington this week...
...that he was rejecting "the easiest course" and pursuing the more difficult one. In this case, "the easiest course would be for me to blame those to whom I delegated the responsibility to run the campaign." Placing the entire blame on subordinates, however, would not have been the easier course???because it would not have washed. To avoid accepting responsibility for the actions of so many men acting in his name would have been impossible...
...dropped in wonder, unable to make a sound). And best of all, as Reporter Paul Moor observed, "in the final rapturous climax of the Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, he will scowl and thrash the orchestra up to the peroration, and then?while the men go on playing, of course???he will stand stricken for a few bars, his face turned toward the empyrean, his hands extended open to the stars, in a sort of ecstasy...