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Perhaps only true sci-fi fans can pick up a book and note, without yelping in protest, that it takes place in roughly A.D. 3705. Yet Peter Ackroyd's The Plato Papers (Doubleday; 173 pages; $19.95) offers just such a leap forward in time with almost no accompanying science or fiction, at least in the sense of narrative exposition and descriptions of characters and settings. So what is Ackroyd, a prolific British biographer and novelist (The Life of Thomas More, English Music...
...from the Vatican, is the most recent chapter in a long litany of abuses perpetrated against Chinese citizens who try to form religious organizations outside of the government's tight and watchful scrutiny. Although much has been made lately of the suppression of the Falun Gong movement, Catholic and Protestant churches in China have also been subjected to the repression of the Chinese government while the U.S. has barely murmured in protest...
Despite these many crimes, the U.S. government has hardly uttered a protest. All we have done is issue the occasional Senate resolution bemoaning the problem. The only members of Congress who have spoken out are religious conservatives with links to evangelical religious groups that have been the targets of religious persecution in China. Aside from these few, the Democrats and mainstream Republicans have made a very poor showing. The issue deserves more vigorous attention than this. Not only is this an offense against human dignity, but also an impediment to social and political reform in China...
...apparently to the Canadian taxpayer, it was. While cities like Nashville--whose citizens think "slapshot" is special ammunition for a Remington--build new stadiums and grant huge tax breaks, the Canadian Taxpayers Association was encouraging the population to mail pucks to Prime Minister Jean Chretien in protest...
...Indian who wears his hair in a thinning ponytail copied originally from the traditional-style long hair of the leaders of the American Indian Movement of the 1970s because I thought it looked cool." Lance's brother teasingly calls Frazier a "wannabe" Indian, and the author doesn't protest much. "Walking on Pine Ridge, I feel as if I am in actual America, the original version that was here before and will still be here after we're gone...