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...broadest theological sense, Josh and other emissaries of Christ are answering Jesus' call in the Gospel According to Matthew, known as the Great Commission: "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." Since the Middle Ages, missionaries--revered by some, reviled by others--have been among history's great cross-cultural pollinators...
...civilian population in towns such as Fallujah is plainly sapping the morale of U.S. troops who had expected to be home in time for July 4 cookouts. Some are speaking out more and more bluntly to reporters in anger at the changing nature of their mission: Rifleman Matthew O'Dell told the New York Times, "You call Donald Rumsfeld and tell him . . . (we) are ready to go home. Tell him to come spend a night in our building." The idea of in-country R&R facilities certainly has an echo of Vietnam; so does the recent USO show in Baghdad...
...International Exhibitions, which reports to the State Department. "It's not so much that we're being taken advantage of," says Krens, "but every once in a while we'd like some consideration ... because it's a space we own and have in- vested in." He lobbied mightily for Matthew Barney, whose multimedia solo show at the New York Guggenheim this spring won lavish praise. But the State Department chose Fred Wilson, whose installation about Africans in Venice through the ages has been panned by the critics. One even suggested that the best reason to visit the U.S. pavilion...
...long on celebrity and short on serious theater. A parade of Hollywood stars with minimal acting chops have invaded Theaterland - among them Woody Harrelson and Kyle MacLachlan, but most notoriously Madonna in the execrable Up For Grabs - many of them sellout performances in every sense of the phrase. After Matthew Perry (one of the Friends) began filling the Comedy Theatre with his lightweight turn in David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, you began to wonder if schlock is the only way to sell tickets these days. Who'd have guessed that it would take a long-dead Norwegian playwright...
...Bush-backed plan. "It's a long process, but this is a big step," says a top Senate aide. President Bush will hit the road this week to start a campaign for Medicare reform--but don't expect him to talk specifics. It's worked so far. --By Matthew Cooper and John Dickerson