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...behind closed doors and dissenting voices were sometimes ignored in an effort to create an impression of unity. Even so, the question of developing a consistent political role for the church could not be avoided. The most forceful call for change came from South African Colored Dutch Reformed Minister Allan Boesak. After condemning repressive regimes with no respect for human rights, he singled out his homeland, where oppression is "carried out by Christians in the name of Christ...
...Years) saw it, Baltimore could become a valuable and joyous town. It is, after all, the home of the Orioles, the Ouija board, the softshell crab, the national anthem, the nation's first passenger railroad (the Baltimore & Ohio), Johns Hopkins Hospital and University, the Preakness, H.L. Mencken and Edgar Allan Poe (not to mention Spiro Agnew). It is also one of the last American possessors of a genuine honky-tonk district, known fondly as The Block, though even that lusty landmark has been sadly vulgarized by topless dancing and a renewal project that has largely plasticized its façade. Mencken...
...effort to keep the Canadian dollar from slumping further, the Bank of Canada two weeks ago boosted its official bank lending rate to 21.24%, the highest such interest rate of any central bank in a major industrial country. Last week Finance Minister Allan MacEachen disclosed that the government is considering a new package of foreign borrowings beyond the $5.5 billion in standby credits now available. The funds would be used to help bolster the Canadian dollar on international markets...
...Starting a renaissance in the Square? Hell, I started THE Renaissance," insists Shakespeare Bro. Steve Aveson. "And my friend here (Allan Krulick), he started the Dark Ages. This is the big time...
...seen this, and that someone, McCullough implies, should have been Teddy. In the Badlands of Dakota, while recovering from the deaths (on the same day) of his mother and first wife Alice Lee, Teddy, at 25, wrote of "melancholy pathless plains" and "deathlike stillness"-the moral geography of Edgar Allan Poe. Here he came as close as he ever would to confessing to his demons...