JEN KILPS in "Gambling on an Education" (July-August 1997) characterizes income-contingent student loans as being theoretically sound but inaccessible to most students.
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Gordon D. Gibson 9-01-1997
SIDNEY CALLAHAN’S editorial on physician-assisted suicide was extraordinarily disappointing ("A Time to Live, A Time to Die," July-August 1997).
Tim McCarroll-Butler 9-01-1997
IN ONE WAY I entirely agree with the point of view Bob Hulteen expressed about Michael Ondaatje’s revisionist spin of Count Laszlo Almasy in the review of The English Pat
Joel Brenner 9-01-1997
IN THE EDITORIAL on United States’ China-Tibet policy, Rose Marie Berger states, "Infant mortality is 88 percent among Tibetans, as opposed to 31 percent among Chinese".
C. Douglas Smith 9-01-1997
I MUST ADMIT that I am perplexed by the recent article on the ecumenical movement ("All Together Now!" by Jim Wallis, May-June 1997).
Stuart Nicodemos Siegel 9-01-1997
IN JIM WALLIS’ article "All Together Now!" he declares the "four basic constituencies" of American Christianity to be "evangelical, mainline Protestant, Catholic, and the historic black churches."
Raphaelle Kosek 9-01-1997
I WAS DELIGHTED with the way you displayed my van Gogh poem ("Poetry," July-August 1997).
Sandy Maben, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 9-01-1997
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows, and apparently so does the media business.
Sandy Maben, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 9-01-1997
Under pressure from conservative Christian organizations, the International Bible Society has scrapped its plans to publish a gender-neutral version of its popular NIV bible.
Kimberly Burge 9-01-1997
A tough and compassionate approach holds offenders accountable while seeking reconciliation.
Sandy Maben, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 9-01-1997
At Iliff School of Theology in Denver, a seminary considered to be one of the country's more liberal, a group of students protesting in the chapel were surprised when the Denver Police Department arrived, handcuffed them, and hauled them to jail.
Sandy Maben, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 9-01-1997
Violence continues in the aftermath of the recent coup in Sierra Leone.
Sandy Maben, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 9-01-1997
In awarding McDonald's $98,000 in a libel case against two vegetarian activists, a British judge found that some of the charges the activists made were true.
Peter B. Price 9-01-1997
Let’s get it straight: Living God’s way in the world is not for the faint-hearted.