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What scared the leadership was that so many people could assemble without the normally vigilant security services' finding out. Some Westerners were comparing it to the flight of German Mathias Rust, who landed his small plane in Red Square in 1987, an audacious act that showed up the limits of what was supposed to be a formidable Soviet air-defense system. The Falun Gong gatherings were more than a worry for China's security services; they were also an embarrassment. The police discovered that the protest was planned in large part by e-mail and that Falun Gong...
...button advocacy, the Power for Living campaign is closer to pure tract evangelism. Viewers who dial the 800 number receive the 134-page booklet, which employs simple metaphors like a country road or a broken golf club in support of the classic invitation. "All you do is, by an act of your will, say, 'I want You, Jesus, to take over my life.'" Participants in an earlier Power drive in 1983 have claimed that several million people ordered the book...
...George Brett, Orlando Cepeda, Nolan Ryan and Robin Yount were inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. But there was another all-star team playing in Cooperstown that weekend: eight miles up the road, Glimmerglass Opera was presenting the world premiere of Central Park, a trio of one-act operas with librettos by three top playwrights: A.R. Gurney (Love Letters), Terrence McNally (Master Class) and Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles). It was quite a lineup for a one-stoplight town--but nothing out of the ordinary for a summer opera festival that is increasingly regarded as the best...
Although the Senate's Taxpayer Refund Act of 1999 provided exclusions for both graduate and undergraduate level courses, the compromised legislation only applies to those employees enrolled in undergraduate courses...
Arafat is currently both president of the Palestinian Authority and chairman of the PLO, but those positions may be separated once he leaves the scene. "The PA would govern Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, while the PLO would continue to act as a representative of the Palestinian diaspora spread across the Arab world," says Hamad. But fear of a challenge to his leadership has restrained Arafat from cultivating candidates for either position, and even the procedures for choosing a replacement are far from clear. "The only certainty," says Hamad, "is that whoever replaces him will be 100 percent...