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"Terror Texts is a new musical using six ancient Israelite stories verbatim from the Bible. The idea was conceived by Northwestern College Professor Jeff Barker with industrial rock songs by Minneapolis composer Joseph Barker and choral music by Heather Josselyn-Cranson.
Professor Barker chose six of the most vile, gory, and disturbing stories. He believes that they have been overlooked in public conversation but argues that their meaning and power are revealed when they are restored to performance. Barker agrees with Hebrew professor Dr. Tom Boogaart (see Touching the Altar) that these ancient stories were born in an oral culture and find their natural home on the stage."
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"On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and 'to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories.'"
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"But as the number of ambitious bars has proliferated, so have their ways of doing things. Interviews with dozens of bartenders around the country suggest that the cocktail movement is becoming so diverse and sophisticated that it encompasses several distinct approaches and philosophies."
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"It really says something about a game when I can, literally, run around for large periods of time only swinging the camera around my main character and just letting the beauty of the in-game visuals seep into my mind."
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"Card-carrying buddhist. Recovered existentialist. Lifelong leftier-than-thou Democrat. Two baby steps and one umbrella step to the immediate right of Arthur Silber. (That's how left, mmkay?) Humorless lipstick feminist. Clintonista Obamist."
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""I take walks frequently — the same walks every weekend — and all of a sudden I'm doing stupid things, just laughing at myself because I'm walking ten more feet to the left this time, or turning down this different street, or walking down the opposite side of the road. Even though I'm going down the same street, I'm on a different side now, facing a different direction. It's so funny how much more I do actually see.""