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...history on some cutting room floor. Sadly, the likes of "Sloaches Fun House" and "Barflies" made it somehow, stunning in just how uninteresting and blandly, almost methodically offensive they are. "Devil Went Down to Georgia" features bad music; "Illusion of Life" never delivers; "Little Rude Riding Hood" could plausibly belong in the so-bad-it's-good...
Some view this policy change as cause for celebration. Others think that there remains work to be done. I belong squarely in the second camp. Same-sex marriage is a start, but it is by no means a final destination for the movement...
...magnitude of the task has come home to President Clinton, who has been pleading with corporate America to hire welfare recipients. This week he takes his case to St Louis to meet with leaders of many of the more than 500 companies--from Boeing to Anheuser-Busch--that belong to the Welfare to Work Partnership, organized by the White House in May to employ people on public assistance. "There are jobs open in every city and community in this nation," says Eli Segal, who heads the corporate partnership. "Our task is to prepare welfare recipients to fill them...
...course. I know of many women in particular who find the minivan the perfect vehicle for its intended purpose, which is the safe and efficient conveyance of half a dozen belligerent, sputtering children from home to soccer game to swim lesson to juvenile-detention center, where most of them belong. The people who malign the minivan--if the gender police will grant me this small observation--are almost exclusively men. And they are at last having their way. Sales of minivans are flat this year, while sales of larger sport-utility vehicles soar. As a commercial product, minivans...
...with prayers for a colon-cancer victim, is heavy with talk of illness and grandchildren. But as a grandfather of 10 gets up to testify, an unexpectedly joyful noise seeps through the floorboards--the sounds of salsa-inflected guitars and tambourines. The musicians, practicing in a basement fellowship room, belong to a fast-growing young Latino Baptist congregation that has shared Kingshighway's building for the past two years. After the old white folks leave, the Peruvian-born Rev. Amadeo Torres and his Spanish-speaking congregation go upstairs. The pews fill with worshippers from eight countries, including an abundance...