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Despite modern theologians' scoffing at Satan, New York's Archbishop O'Connor tells of two recent exorcisms and blames heavy-metal rock music for spreading the kingdom of evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Mar. 19, 1990 | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...conquest of 100 million people by 100,000 soldiers. It was Genghis Khan's grandson Batu who first swept into Russia. When Kiev resisted, Batu besieged the city in 1240, burned it to the ground and massacred all its inhabitants. "When we passed through that land," wrote Archbishop Plano Carpini, a papal legate bound for the new power center in Mongolia, "we found lying in the field countless heads and bones of dead people. This city had been extremely large and very populous, whereas now it has been reduced to nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LAND GREAT AND RICH IN SEARCH OF ORDER | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

SUJA activities at Harvard will begin next weekwith a fund-raising and educational outreachcampaign, said Gurner. Students will circulate apetition in support of Archbishop Desmond M.Tutu's call for complete divestment unless theSouth African government follows through onpromised reforms and dismantles apartheid, shesaid...

Author: By Fffie K. Anagnostopoulos, | Title: Students Join Divestment Coalition | 3/8/1990 | See Source »

...Tenured Professor, despite its excesses and factual inaccuracies (Galbraith at one point has Harvard investing $200 million while Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu sits on its Board of Overseers), resonates with a feeling of reality. Galbraith, after all, realizes how things work--he understands America's economy; he perceives its societally-imposed norms; and he knows Harvard. This realistic overcast to the sage professor's satire is disturbing, because when all is said and done, his comedy is biting, and its tone is black...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: A Professor Tenured: | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...home township of Soweto, children danced around Mandela's house singing "Mandela is coming!" Declared a jubilant Archbishop Desmond Tutu: "Here he is, this man who has such a crucial role to play in the making of this new South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa No Easy Walk to Freedom | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

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