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...creator of all things. Who are we to say God did not provide us with the knowledge of cloning? Who are we to say that life created to help other lives is not one of the most angelic offerings from God? (THE REV.) BRETT A. HARRIS Canton, Ohio...
ISLE MATTERS Shamian Island came into the world as drug runners' booty. Lead by the British, foreign traders in Canton, as Guangzhou was called, had been banking opium-trade profits for almost half a century?and going to war to preserve them?when in 1860 they extracted Shamian from the Qing as spoils of the Second Opium War. They built a granite wall around what was then a sandbar?essentially building an island...
...Canton Chilling (thatsguangzhou.com...
...Appleton Arena, Canton...
...rage for "coon songs," which were to be sung as if by black performers - often by whites in blackface. "Alexander's Ragtime Band" is such a song, the name of the bandleader tipping listeners of the day to his race. Berlin wrote numbers popularized in blackface by Eddie Canton ("Mandy"), Al Jolson ("To My Mammy") and Bing Crosby ("Abraham" in "Holiday Inn"). Some of Berlin's coon songs offered what now seems like subversive social commentary. Beneath its jarring title and setting, the 1915 "A Pair of Ordinary Coons" could be making an early argument for people of color (unlike...