Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Chinese factory worker caught sight of a blond woman releasing Christian pamphlets into the air. Ma never saw her again, but the woman's airborne message stayed with him. Today, five months after he first read the booklet, Ma leads a dozen underground worshippers near Changsha, capital of central Hunan province. "Christianity fills my heart," he says of his illegal religious activity. "It makes the problems of today's society much more tolerable...
Historian Stephen Ambrose looks feelingly at the Missouri Breaks, a stretch of the Missouri River that winds for 150 miles in north-central Montana. He sees it, he believes, pretty much as Lewis and Clark did almost 200 years ago. "This is the least inhabited, most precious part of the Lower 48," he says. "It's ours to preserve for our progeny. It would be sacrilegious not to." Note the vocabulary...
...powered Hollywood website featuring movie-industry data and showcasing new talent. But the part of the site that has everyone talking is "The Buzz," an anonymous chat section restricted by password to industry insiders. In "Executive Shuffle," studio brass dish on who's up and who's down. "Assistant Central" is a drone's-eye view of life in Tinseltown...
...flick, but the film, very loosely based on actual events, has Chicago Mayor Richard Daley fuming. A copy of the screenplay Daley obtained has Reeves' li'l sluggers acting like delinquents and making liberal use of the F word. (You'd think Daley might protest that the film's central plot device is stolen from that 1992 classic, The Mighty Ducks--but no.) "They just don't want this movie to portray all the good things they've done," Daley said about the real league's players and volunteer coaches. Public schools CEO Paul Vallas questioned why so many adolescent...
Clinton pleaded with Arafat during their hour- and-a-half meeting but chose to keep the arm- bending private. At best, the White House hoped that when Arafat returned home to chair the conference of the Palestinian Central Council over the weekend, he would head off any move among its hard-liners to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state on Wednesday, the original deadline. Arafat did that. But it still doesn't represent enough progress for Clinton to convene a second Camp David summit...