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...same but it sounds different." Our Redeemer's Haitians use Haitian music, and the Kingshighway Latino congregation integrates salsa, soul and tango sounds. Sermon styles differ: African Americans expect call and response from the pews and services that last twice as long as a typical white service. Roosevelt Clossum, minister of the African-American congregation at Mount Olive, says that when he went to give a guest sermon before the whites at Kingshighway, he was warned that if he preached more than an hour, a trapdoor would open under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI: GATHERING IN FAITH BUT NOT TOO CLOSE | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

Sexual behavior as the measure of a man is a faulty gauge; otherwise Richard Nixon would be one of our best Presidents and Franklin Roosevelt one of our worst. One's sexual behavior as a component of character used to count for nothing (President Kennedy's assignations were not covered while he was alive), which was wrong; now it counts for far too much. Gary Hart was no prize, but should his 12 years as a Senator and 39-year marriage be blotted out by his dalliance with Donna Rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE... | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...People would ask her why she was a Democrat," MacFarquhar says, "She would always point to Roosevelt and Truman...

Author: By William P. Moynahan, | Title: A Bright Future | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 wanted to put a chicken in every pot, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) said in October that it wants to put a computer on every desk...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Decentralization Impedes Implementation of IT Reforms | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...just as taxpayers would not pick up the tab for Roosevelt's chickens, the prevailing winds of decentralization scattered the responsibility for this and other technology initiatives--making them nearly impossible to implement...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Decentralization Impedes Implementation of IT Reforms | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

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