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...there is one thing that Cicely Saunders knows about, it is coping. This much-honored 70-year-old physician, who eight years ago was made a Dame of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth, has devoted much of her life to caring for the dying, and in doing so has changed the way of death for millions of people. Dame Cicely is England's modern-day Florence Nightingale. She has made herself death's interlocutor, bargaining away the pain and isolation in return for peace and acceptance. She has done this as much through the strength of a very forthright...
However, as with many matters in New Testament criticism, things are not so simple as they might seem. "Jesus expected a radical transformation of the world and that this would involve the coming of a heavenly figure," says Adela Yarbro Collins of the University of Notre Dame. But, she adds, "Jesus did not believe himself to be this figure." In this liberal interpretation, the disciples experienced Jesus as risen from the dead and became convinced that Jesus himself was the heavenly person who was to come. They then introduced this novel idea into Jesus' teaching...
...recent full-page advertisement in the Washington Post, the 125,000-member Planetary Society urged support for a manned mission. The ad listed the names of a glittering array of such prominent Americans as Walter Cronkite, Jimmy Carter, Utah Senator Jake Garn, Nobel Laureate Physicist Hans Bethe and Notre Dame's former president, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh. All of them have signed the Society's "Mars Declaration," which advocates a U.S. space program that would lead to the human exploration of Mars...
Pamela Harriman, grand dame widow of Averell and a valued Democratic fund raiser, backed Senator Albert Gore in the primaries. Yet she managed to be on the dais with Dukakis, smiling silkily, as he delivered his first major foreign policy speech this month at the Atlantic Council. Georgetown denizens began whispering that she hopes to become the next Ambassador to the United Nations. At the same conference, Andrew Pierre, a Paris-based defense expert, was the first to ask Dukakis a question. "Andrew shot up out of his seat like a Pershing II missile," a colleague knowingly observed. In social...
Kennedy brings a great deal of success with him to the Crimson. As an undergraduate at Notre Dame, the four-year letterwinner was the Midwest Conference diving champion...