Phoebe Gates, the youngest and most stylish of Bill and Melinda Gates’s children, steps into the spotlight as a founder of a new online shopping tool.

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Like Hwang’s previous novels, this book is a tender, spooky portrait of outcast friends and lovers. In the first story, d and ...

In it, Andrade, a scholar of the Greco-Roman world, argues that the authors of the Gospels rewrote history to let the Romans off the hook, and shifted the blame for their messiah’s execution to ...

While scholars, comic book writers and fans alike are struck by the religious undertones in Superman comics, they all agree ...

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Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome and Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, who worked to instill progressive influences on the global church while maintaining unity with conservatives amid years of ...

That seems the most significant aspect of his time as Pope. Through sheer personableness, he took Roman Catholicism back to street level and brought the papacy down to earth, much the way that ...

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