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...confessed his guilt as well as that of the church and "the Afrikaner people as a whole." Although his declaration caused an uproar, his statements echoed a historic resolution adopted two weeks earlier at a church synod. Former President P.W. Botha briefly emerged from seclusion to express his anger. "The Afrikaners, my people, were not oppressors," he insisted. But progressive Afrikaners are advocating that the government take the matter further by actually apologizing to blacks and providing restitution for the damage done by apartheid...
Another problem with the movement flows from its strength: its effort to deal with each individual's very personal and unique woes. While Beattie and the movement's theorists have found a way to express common problems, believers can feel pressure to fit their unique life experiences into the accepted dependency theory. This creates a risk that they simply substitute the movement for the person or problems upon which they are codependent. "To call zealousness toward recovery a dependency trivializes the healing process," responds Beattie. "Some of us need to go overboard to counter years of destructive ways of thinking...
Bloomingdale's sold out of the package by mid-November. The store promises to take care of the handling, freight, sales tax and military customs requirements. Like Federal Express, Bloomingdales guarantees delivery...
...persuasively unravels Demjanjuk's alibi (he claims he was a German prisoner of war at the time), the author handles the task a bit too eagerly, often telling the reader what to make of the evidence, which piles up "like the corpses in the pit." In fact, some observers express lingering doubts about whether Demjanjuk was really Ivan the Terrible...
...much longer. Congress has given the Justice Department the right to start collecting tolls from automobiles entering the U.S. at various border checkpoints. An initial test will take place in March in Blaine, Wash.: for a one-time $25 fee, drivers will be allowed unlimited crossings in a special "express lane." Tolls of $2 a crossing will be tested later. Officials claim the tolls are needed to pay for more border agents and to improve facilities at the crowded checkpoints. Opponents have complained that poor day laborers will be hardest hit by the charges and that instituting them is tantamount...