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...Road Cinema showing Fahrenheit 9/11 have been packed with viewers who clap, boo, laugh and cry nearly on cue. Even the dissenters are impressed. When the lights came up after a showing last week, one gent rose from his seat and said grudgingly, "It's bull____, but I gotta admit it was done well...
...Organizers say the July 1 march was as big as the one last year, attracting some 500,000 people. Police put the figure at 200,000, although they admit that could be a low estimate. Either way, no one expected anything near the actual turnout?and the reaction in Hong Kong was swift and amazed. Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, one of the protesters' main punching bags?they distributed inflatable bludgeons imprinted with his caricature?was compelled to praise the march as "harmonious, with a touch of joyousness." The day after the march, a group of pro-democracy legislators asked...
...historians have been telling us over the past four decades, Jefferson was a deeply flawed human being. Not only was he sometimes deceitful and duplicitous, but he was also a racist slaveholder who never freed most of his slaves. Certainly, however, we should be able to admit these flaws in this timebound 18th century figure without denigrating the democratic ideals he set forth...
...pencils, the crack of new books. But the end of school feels much more like the true end of the year, far more than that strange week of playing with new gadgets and shopping the after-Christmas sales. Teachers say kids go a little crazy in June (honest teachers admit they do as well), caught in a nasty collision of Separation Anxiety and Threshold Anxiety, as they stand in summer's doorway, knowing they're supposed to plunge eagerly through but not sure what will happen in all that open space and fresh air and free time...
Doctrinaire critics might not admit it, but Anderson's example lends credence to her contention that in Episcopalianism, at least, some battles are already won. "A woman who really has a passion about doing ministry and doesn't have an ax to grind," she says, "can get a decent...