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...creature is immortal, some/ are more stubborn than others." And Robert Lowell hopes that "when shallow waters peter out," he will be able to "catch Christ with a greased worm" and save his soul. The Fisherman notes, "Lowell was a Christian, and he was probably right to resort to the metaphor of fishing for his purpose. Christianity is an aquarium . . . in the fourth century, the cross was not the prevailing symbol for the Man-Fisher; the fish was . . . when ((Jesus)) rose from the dead and went up on the Mount, he took with him only three, all fishermen...
...Money is money, and when it's gone, it's gone," says Richard G. Jaeger, Dartmouth's director of admissions. He says his school is not able to give out all of the aid it would like to, and, like many other colleges, has had to resort to financial aid waiting lists, though it continues to a have a need-blind admissions policy...
...children. Laws in every state require teachers, nurses and other professionals to report any suspicion of sexual abuse, with penalties for failing to do so. Also judges are increasingly less willing to assign children automatically to mothers. The result: some wives use false accusations as a weapon of last resort...
...board hired new auditors and ordered a full review of compensation. The Bakkers apparently will no longer have use of the residence provided by PTL, but they own two comfortable homes elsewhere. PTL is expected to unload the lakefront home near Fort Mill where Dortch lives, along with five resort properties and assorted boats and luxury cars...
...speculation about human motives and mixes subjective evaluation with fact. A political scientist, for example, cannot prove mathematically that Hitler's political regime was an inevitable consequence of Germany's post-World War I disarray, but he can make a pretty good case. Nevertheless, claim hard-liners, softies often resort to equations and logarithmic curves to try to prove such points, thereby not only confusing their own issues but also traducing the methods of pure science...