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Humanizing Jesus in the 2000 CBS television miniseries

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Dionysus and human nature: ancient myth to modern culture

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William Westney's The Perfect Wrong Notes and musical creativity

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Dementia and identity loss in Michael Ignatieff's Scar Tissue

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NCAA study on gambling among college student-athletes

Gambling among college students is a growing problem on campuses across the country.

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