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...University of Texas' White. But that, he contends, is the point. Unlike Matthew, Luke is thought to have been a pagan rather than a Jewish convert to Christianity, writing in fine Greek for other non-Jews and so using references they would find familiar. His version's heraldic announcements, parallel pregnancies, angelic choirs and shepherd witnesses bear a tantalizing resemblance to another literary form, the reverential "lives" being written about pagan leaders in the same period. In such sagas, a hero is not a hero unless his birth reflects the magnificence of his later achievements, and such super-nativities, originally...
...town of Halabja in 1988, in which 5,000 Kurds died. Double Victory GHANA President John Kufuor was elected to a second term, earning 53% of the national vote, against 44% for main rival John Atta Mills. Kufuor's New Patriotic Party also secured a majority in Parliament in parallel legislative elections, though Mills complained that supporters of his National Democratic Congress party were intimidated. The Best Defense JAPAN The government revised the country's defense policy, relaxing a long-standing ban on arms exports to allow sales to the U.S. of components related to the development of a joint...
...With parallel shops set up throughout the country, Revolution Books is something of a chain—but you didn’t hear that from us. At heart, the store is profoundly un-capitalist. It’s so un-capitalist, in fact, that its staff members don’t get paid at all. Sales only generate half of the store’s operating costs, and it relies on donations from communist sympathizers nationwide to make up for the rest, O’Leary explains. He says the store’s mission is to help sustain...
...face, the idea that multiple universes exist simultaneously in some parallel spheres of being sounds as farfetched as Gardner's biocosm theory. But scientists have been warily edging toward that conclusion from other directions for reasons that originally had nothing to do with the anthropic principle...
...there were any incongruity to be found in the situation it was not due to the architect’s diminutive size—reincarnated some 35 years after his death as a foot-tall marionette, his strings slightly tangled. Instead, it came from Huyghe’s own parallel role as an artist brought to Cambridge in a similar attempt to redefine the University’s relationship to contemporary...