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...capital, the Civil War and a new volume covering presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush. They allow the prospective patriot to bone up on the grand saga of the American ideals of freedom and equality, while at the same time keeping track of our original sins through chapter titles such as "fighting the Indians - again...
...Bible's prediction of violence during this period gives the Left Behind books their gore. The nuclear frights of, say, Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears wouldn't fill a chapter in the Left Behind series. (Large chunks of several U.S. cities have been bombed to smithereens by page 110 of Book 3.) Harvey Cox, a professor of divinity at Harvard, says part of the appeal of Left Behind lies in the "lip-licking anticipation of all the blood." But many nonbelievers come to Christ in the course of the books, and this holy "soul harvest" lends...
...dismembered in a field near her house. Three days later, a neighbor's dog comes trotting home with her elbow in its mouth. This is horror at its darkest and most tantalizing--a stiff cocktail of David Lynch and Judy Blume, served with a distinct chill--and as first chapters go, it's a knockout. The second chapter tops...
...like Singapore, the peril of racial conflagration in Malaysia. Through death, ouster or abdication, the Deng Xiaopings, Suhartos and Lee Kuan Yews have passed from the scene. And now?if he goes ahead with his drawn-out exit strategy?comes Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's turn, perhaps closing the chapter on long-serving Asian leaders who, by sheer force of their personalities, transformed their nations...
When local feminists like Emily Hall, a board member of the Boston chapter of the National Organization for Women and a staffer in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences registrar’s office, found out about the anti-abortion demonstration earlier this month, they organized their own counter-protest...