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That, in the end, is the heart of Museveni's message. "We are building Afrocentric, not Eurocentric, countries," he says, a continent where Africans deal with Africans. But the fragility of these ideas is still painfully evident even to Museveni. He stood at a hotel window in Kinshasa looking across the Congo river to Brazzaville, capital of the other country called the Congo. A prosperous, thriving nation just three months ago, that Congo has fallen back into mindless civil war, and as the latest cease-fire was broken, Museveni could see the bright red tracers of bullets arcing across...
...Catholic Charities, to operate government-funded programs. Nor must they strip these programs of religiosity--cover religious symbols or remove evangelical tracts from waiting rooms--to participate. To its proponents, charitable choice is simply about treating churches equally. "Just because an organization has a cross hanging in its window doesn't mean we should discriminate against it and prevent it from helping people," says Representative J.C. Watts of Oklahoma...
Then, having frightened his last fare witless--he drives as wildly as he talks--Jerry pulls up in front of an apartment house, trains his binoculars on a window behind which a woman, obviously above his station and equally obviously a love object, is exercising, and we get really nervous. For we seem to be entering Travis Bickle country, an essentially inimitable place that one wants to visit only once in a lifetime...
...that was before you climbed into a cab with Jerry. Wild-eyed and handsomely grungy, he scares his passengers with his crazy talk and even crazier driving and pulls up to famous people not to let them in his cab but to take pictures of them through his window. But this taxi driver has deep blue eyes and drop-dead good looks, and happens to be played by MelGibson...
...only beginning to understand how sharks live and behave and what their relationship to other sea creatures really is. That's hardly a surprise, since sharks spend most of their time out of sight of human observers. Thanks largely to increasingly sophisticated electronics, though, scientists are finally opening a window on the life history of the shark...