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Naturally, Spong would find many at Harvard who would agree with his beliefs. But that is irrelevant. Harvard accepted Nannie Noble's substantial endowment to establish the Noble Lectures and made no complaint about her religious conditions. Spong is singularly unqualified to fulfill Noble's stipulations that the lecture present Jesus as "the Way, the Truth, and the Life," that it inspire people to "the joy of service for Christ," or that it present the "personality of Jesus, as given in the New Testament." Spong is famous only because of his contempt for the New Testament's portrayal of Jesus...
...what would he and his followers do if they won Washington's seal of approval? They would seek return of some of their ancestral lands, he says, on which they would establish a museum and model village. And that's not all. "We're talking," he adds, "about having the largest casino in the world...
...have graduate students rather than professors signing study cards," Foote says. "It makes it harder for students to establish relationships with professors...
...again just like they did in hundreds of thousands during the winter of 1996-97. But they will attempt to overthrow the detested Milosevic only when they are assured free elections, elections that will provide them with leaders who will protect their interests and show a real effort to establish democratic institutions in the country. Until then, they will continue to live in fear from both their own mafia-infested regime and the international community...
...from standing trial for crimes against humanity only because of his ailing health, has been deeply humiliating for the renowned Anglophile, and his ordeal may not be over. Chilean judge Juan Guzman is currently considering some 59 lawsuits brought against Pinochet, and the judge wants more medical tests to establish his fitness to stand trial. Of course Pinochet has plenty of legal grounds to hold off the prosecutors, particularly in light of the legal amnesty he insisted on as a condition for allowing a return to civilian rule. But that doesn't change the fact that now, even...