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During years of tough rehabilitation, she taught herself to draw and paint, holding a pen or a brush between her teeth. Then came the speaking tours and writing, in which she uses her own faith to encourage the despairing and disabled. Last year she organized a national "ministry to those who suffer" called Joni and Friends. Based in Woodland Hills, Calif., it offers both spiritual and practical advice to as many as 2,000 letter writers each week...
...avatars and parodies of the looking-glass warriors, and most of them are perversely delightful. Mme. Ing, the patrician Borgia who rules Amboland, ends every discussion with the despot's stern logic: "Mme. Ing has won that argument," she purrs. U.S. Army Lieutenant Thibodeaux brags that the service "taught me how to fight and how to swear"-and then demonstrates just how poorly he learned at least one of those lessons as he expectorates a stream of hilariously garbled obscenities. A Saigon prostitute, blinking and cooing like a neon China doll, whispers rote nothings into our hero...
...minute speech before Science B-15, "Evolutionary Biology," taught by E.O. Wilson, Baird Professor of Science, a spokesman for the International Committee Against Racism (INCAR) reiterated his organization's charge that sociobiology is a racist theory...
...stories: people join hands, laughing and singing, and ascend slowly heavenward. The author portrays all movements, crusades, organized religions and political parties as extended circle dances. "I too once danced in a ring," Kundera writes, describing how he joined the Communist Party in 1948. His expulsion shortly there after taught him something: "Leave a row and you can always go back...
...Cultural Revolution hardened his own resolve, Zhao says, it taught the nation a lesson. "The ultraleft line was carried to its logical conclusion and was thoroughly discredited in the eyes of the people," he says. "The Cultural Revolution paved the way for the current reforms." He disagrees with those who believe that revenge alone is what powers current policies. For example, Zhao argues, the trial of the Gang of Four is a reassertion of the authority of written law after a period when "the top leaders' words were law." "It's very easy to gain vindication," he says, dismissing...