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All illustrat ions by Janneke Stort eboom 33 Wherefore art th ou Billy? unless oth erw ise indicated. PUZZLED Cartoons: p 1 9 by Dca n Moore, p3 8 by Tro y Bramston opens the files on the Katheri ne Brazenor. government of William McMahon. 51 Joan N owotny Cryptic crossword Andrew Hamilton The final word L,L>NT TH' Pa ssion of the ch,ist h" been of your policies when putting them in place. You the biggest Christian show in town. Among the are free sunnily to involve yourself in bombing many faults theological critics have found in it, they Iraq or in imprisoning children without seeing the have accused Mel Gibson of being false to the Gos­ faces of those whom you have maimed physically pel by wallowing in the gore and weat of the Pas­ or spiritually. You need not contemplate your own sion at the expense of the Resurrection. death or the death of those whom you afflict. Where That criticism surely misses the target. In the policy is radically dissociated from the reality of Gospels, Christ rises only after fully testing the dev­ death, the paradoxical result is a society dominated astating power of death. Although Mark's account of by the logic of death.