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Officially, Roth's crime was "willful disregard and violation" of the church's constitution in disobeying a command from his superior, Kenneth May, bishop for the Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Synod. More broadly, however, the Roth case is part of an ongoing conflict in the Pittsburgh area over social-action...
When Louis XIV outlawed the Protestant Huguenots in France, thousands of them came to Geneva, bringing their skills as watchmakers, jewelers, merchants, bankers. Within a century they had helped make dour Geneva one of the richest cities in the world. It still forbade theatrical performances as sinful, so Voltaire acquired...
In phone calls to a local journalist an hour later, the outlawed Irish Republican Army called the attack "a well-planned operation" that "indicates our ability to strike when and where we decide." Indeed, after a long period of relative calm in Ulster, the I.R.A. had killed more police in...
In recent weeks the I.R.A. has begun hitting back. A former serviceman in the mainly Protestant Ulster Defense Regiment was gunned down last month in Londonderry, and a U.D.R. soldier was killed last week in County Tyrone, only hours after the Newry blast. One of those most deeply affected by...
A FEW YEARS BACK, Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell called attention to what he termed a major contradiction in modern life--one that he felt could eventually not away at the very foundation of western society. He described in various books and articles a type of personality that has become increasingly...