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Sharpton is also well-connected with otherBlack leaders. For instance, the Rev. JesseJackson attended Sharpton's baptism into theBaptist church last month
Wade in the Water is a welcome baptism of knowledge. In 26 hour-long segments that begin airing this month on most NPR stations, the program is as entertaining and informative as the best documentary series on PBS, a sort of Eyes on the Prize for the ears. Each episode examines, through music, a part of the history of blacks in America -- in all covering 200 years of spirituals, hymns and gospel songs...
Bill Clinton, whose political baptism was a 1963 handshake with Kennedy, has so far failed to revive Camelot precisely because he has been unable to inspire Americans in the way that JFK did. He has invoked the Kennedy legacy through policy proposals (the National Service Act--a domestic Peace Corps), lofty ambiguities (the New Covenant--a Southern Baptist's New Frontier), and a series of staged events (Maya Angelo's inaugural poem a la Robert Frost, a Rose Garden reception for Boys' Nation 30 years--to the day--after Clinton's encounter with Kennedy...
...those of us whose careers depend upon the successful reading of entrails, the recent vote for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a career-challenging, once-in-a-lifetime, baptism-by-fire, (place your cliche here) experience. The escalating demagoguery and the reduction of a substantive issue to excruciating sound bites and appalling rhymes (NAFTA: we hafta, or we'll be sorry thereafta) during the weeks immediately preceding the vote were perhaps the strongest argument for keeping the administrative proceedings which accompany such international trade negotiations opaque...
...suspenser about cops and terrorists; and The Killer will be remade, with Richard Gere and Denzel Washington touted to play the assassin and his pursuer. For now, Woo says he is "quite happy with Hard Target." He is one tough guy -- tough enough to survive the M.P.A.A.'s baptism of a thousand cuts...