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...give the news impartially Without fear or favor. Regardless of any party, Sect or interest involved...
...tainted by the human artifact that bears it? Ozick clearly relishes such paradoxes. Her stories are lush evocations of stony mysteries. In Bloodshed, a middle-aged Jew visits a Hasidic community populated chiefly by survivors of the Nazi death camps. A professed rationalist, he is repelled by the religious sect, with its ancient memories of animal sacrifice, but drawn to its adherents: "Refugees, survivors. He supposed they had a certain knowledge the unscathed could not guess at." Dramatically, he learns that the Hasidim cannot be separated from their beliefs - and that his own lack of faith has made him demonic...
...confessions that made members susceptible to blackmail; "disconnect" orders requiring the devout to sever all ties with antagonistic family and friends; "fair game," under which a defector could be "deprived of property or injured by any means . . . sued, lied to or destroyed." The worst practices were dropped, but the sect did not become notably friendlier. "Black p.r." and "noisy investigations" (wellpublicized inquiries into the motives and backgrounds of critics) continue. Hubbard once spoke darkly of handling enemies via "Auditing Process R2-45," meaning a .45 bullet through the head, but this was just a joke, say his followers, and there...
Americans like their popular music to rock and roll, but Jamaicans take their pop songs more seriously. Most of the island's musicians are Rastafarians, members of a sect that believes Jamaica's culture should reflect its people's African roots. What they sing and play is called reggae music-the name comes from the title of a 1968 hit-whose lyrics treat political tensions, social grievances and "black roots" culture. Because an unpopular law or politician can become the subject of a popular song, reggae is a political force that is felt at the government...
...party is now assembling that platform on which the eventual nominee must stand or run or fall or whatever. The issue that most grips me is monogamy for Utah. Many otherwise quite sane politicians become livid at the mention of the Mormons, a curious sect recently invented by a "prophet" and confined for the most part to the Utah desert, where Mormon women live in harems and breed incontinently. They sound very nice to me, if overly energetic...