Word: though
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...sport in which grown men brandishing sticks chase a little white ball around a big green field. He might have added that the field usually belongs to a lily-white country club. It is common knowledge that Birmingham's Shoal Creek Country Club has no black members, though the fact is not usually publicized. But last month, miffed when Birmingham politicians discussing the approaching Professional Golfers' Association championship tournament criticized his club's exclusionary practices, Hall Thompson, founder of Shoal Creek, offered a blunt defense: "We pick and choose who we want...
...Waldheim thought he would get a p.r. windfall from Havel's visit, he underestimated his man. Though a beaming Waldheim introduced Havel to the crowd in glowing terms, the playwright President did not return the compliment. Instead, using language that was indirect but clear enough, he verbally lacerated his opposite number, who for years concealed his service as an officer in a German army unit linked to Nazi atrocities in the Balkans during World War II. Choosing the fear of history as his theme, Havel called "the expectation that one can glide through history unpunished and rewrite...
...lesson of these times is that free markets succeed where governments fail, Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is a very voguish thinker. Though his effort to revive his country's punch-drunk economy gets much less attention than the shake-ups transforming Eastern Europe, his monetary program . is every bit as revolutionary. To corset the bloated public sector and turn the economy over to the entrepreneurs, Collor has adopted policies more radical than anything attempted in Brazil in decades -- or perhaps ever -- since taking office on March 15. His approach, says Kenneth Maxwell, senior fellow at the New York...
...Genesis. He has also vexed low-church hard-liners with his increasing friendliness toward Catholicism. As bishop, Carey has taken Anglo-Catholics in his diocese on a pilgrimage to a shrine to the Virgin Mary at Walsingham. In 1985 he declared that Evangelicals and Roman Catholics, though longtime adversaries, now "stand firm together for a historic faith against the insidious bloodletting which extreme liberalism perpetrates on the body Christian." Arthur Leggatt, the general secretary of the Anglo-Catholic Church Union, said last week, "We welcome his orthodox stand on the Scriptures and the creed...
...Though no social gospeler, Carey is willing to speak occasionally on political issues. A staunch environmentalist who once said, "God is green," he scolded Thatcher this year when she took a swipe at the ecology movement, and he also criticized the Prime Minister's disputed poll tax. Thatcher nonetheless had no hesitation in giving him the nation's spiritual primacy, no doubt because she agrees with a preappointment editorial in the Economist that declared, "What is needed is an inspiring missionary leader for a church that has lost whatever grip it had on an increasingly pagan country." No bishop...