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...scientific historiography, German and French scholars between 1775 and 1900 tried to write "realistic" biographies of Jesus. They stripped the Gospels of miraculous and dogmatic elements, and used new materials gleaned from non-Christian literary sources and from archaeology. Out of such efforts came such portraits as David Friedrich Strauss's Jesus as a Jewish sage, and Adolf von Harnack's Jesus as an ideal ethical humanist...
...graduate economics department, where "classical" Economist Friedrich von Hayek long worked, now offers conservative Milton Friedman (Capitalism and Freedom) as Chicago's answer to Harvard's liberal John K. Galbraith. Yet the "Chicago School" is hardly hidebound; it recently imported a British Keynesian and was a little disappointed to find him too "sensible." Conservatism also marks the first-rate law school, headed by Dean Phillip C. Neal, which has lured the American Bar Association to a nearby national headquarters. In 1958, for example, Chicago law professors did the research for a prickly resolution by the chief justices...
...veils and her dances, and in a spirit perfectly suggested by the jewel stuck in her navel, she treated an earnest audience to a performance of Strauss's shocker that came straight from the libido. For its new Salome under the sophisticated hand of Director Götz Friedrich, 32, the Komische Oper signaled its intentions by tacking up a "No One Under 18 Admitted" sign at the box office. With Czech Soprano Jarmila Rudolfova as Salome, Friedrich had a tiger to inspire him and he made the most of it; after researching such questions as the typical nighttime...
This change will make Gov 1b "less an abbreviated introduction to Government 106 and more a course in its own right," Friedrich said. By requiring a student to consider the ideal concepts, "we may force him to think, which is what we are trying to do at Harvard...
...Friedrich also said that the Department may offer freshman seminars in political theory next year. A typical seminar would examine the thought of a key philosopher such as Rousseau. Friedrich may give one of the seminars...