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...ultimate symbol of state-sponsored corruption and cynical manipulation of power is the Yeltsin "Family." It includes Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana Dyachenko; his onetime chief of staff Valentin Yumashev; and a number of powerful financiers, including Boris Berezovsky. The group played a major role in engineering Yeltsin's retirement and Putin's rise. And though corruption allegations against the Family have disappeared from most front pages, the heat is still on. A Swiss prosecutor recently told a Russian newspaper that relatives and associates of Yeltsin's remain under investigation in his country...
...tragedy has focused attention on the rise of fringe Christian groups in Uganda and elsewhere in Africa. Christianity is growing faster in Africa than anywhere else on earth. At current growth rates, in the next decade the number of African Christians will exceed the number of European believers: perhaps 520 million, in contrast to 470 million. This would leave African Christians second only to Christians in Latin America, who number around 700 million. Most of the tremendous growth is coming not in such historic mainstream denominations as Anglican and Roman Catholic but in newer, livelier, indigenous churches. "People find...
...someone from the heavens had been sent down to me." He brought her tea, bread and cheese, then carried her on his back three kilometers to a train station. He called her Edita--the first time since her deportation that anyone had called her by anything but a number. When they reached Krakow, some other Jews told her to abandon the priest lest he try to convert her, and she hid. But she remembered his name and that he was from Wadowice. Reading a story on the new Pope in Paris Match in 1978, she said, "This...
...enjoyed a moment of triumph on Friday when, on the mountain where Jesus was said to have delivered the Sermon on the Mount, he celebrated Mass for 80,000 mostly youthful believers. They were from around the world, but a sizable number were Lebanese, and parts of the Mass were in Arabic. Said Wadie Abu-Nassar, director of the Great Jubilee Office in Jerusalem: "Since the time of Jesus, no one has ever managed to bring a crowd like this together in a peaceful way. When crowds like this have gathered in the past it was normally...
While much of the responsibility for teaching kids how to act with the police must fall to parents, a growing number of organized groups are trying to make such training a part of every child's education. In New York City an organization called 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care has been swamped with requests for survival workshops, conducted in schools and community organizations. More than 5,000 people, mostly youth, have attended so far. In Chicago, Michael Owens, 17, grew up amid the gangs and drugs of the Englewood neighborhood and had a typical attitude toward the police...