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Democrats hoping the Green Party would stay out of the 2004 presidential race appear to be out of luck. At the Greens' national committee meeting held in Washington, D.C., over the weekend, the discussion focused more on who and how, rather than whether or not, to run. Ralph Nader and former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney are the best-known of those considering a bid for the party's nomination, but at least four others - three of whom appeared at a candidate forum during the meeting - are ready to enter the fray...
...Ralph Lauren--next to a ridiculous little sportcoat cut from pink-green-and-blue madras plaid--that I spotted the Holy Grail: a perfect navy blue blazer in a smooth flannel wool. It was $240. I knew I would end up with the Gap's predictably adequate $48 version, but I lingered at Ralph Lauren, fingering the blazer's golden buttons, trying to rationalize such an indulgent purchase. It's a special occasion, I reminded myself. Nothing's too good for my boy. Besides, the jacket was cheap compared with the $525 vintage Levi's ("That's five bills...
Would he have wound up looking like this anyway? If Ralph Archbold hadn't been talked into playing Ben Franklin in a local summer production in Dearborn, Mich., when he was a 31-year-old professional photographer who looked nothing like the man, would his head have gone bald in just this way? Would he have gained this much weight, needed bifocals and developed a bad hip that required a cane? Is it possible that a person can so identify with someone else that he morphs into his likeness...
Through the 1970s, the great missions fields were Latin America, where conservative Protestantism competed with Catholicism for the hearts of the poor, and (for the more daring) Africa and the Iron Curtain countries. Gradually, however, the focus shifted. A missions strategist named Ralph Winter suggested in 1974 that Christians turn their attention from areas already exposed to Christ to "unreached people groups" who had never heard the Gospel. The plan held special allure for those who read literally another verse in Matthew suggesting that when every nation is reached, the long-awaited end times can commence. In 1989 Argentine-born...
...Norwegian playwright to save the West End? To the relief of lovers of serious theater, no fewer than four plays by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) have opened in London this summer. Granted, the lead performers have some Hollywood movies on their CVs, but they also have serious theater cred - Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson and Patrick Stewart know their way around the boards - and they're drawing rapturous reviews and full-house crowds. Industry-bible Variety magazine declared: "London stages a big comeback - a moribund theater climate has turned itself around." Stewart, best known as an X-Man and sometime Star...