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...nation that was more aware of its Protestant roots than its growing diversity. A Baptist, he preaches a Gospel message so pure as to elude denominational criticism. He is expert at minimizing personal or philosophical particularities that would have reduced his constituency. A friend of Presidents, he lives in comfort but has nonetheless avoided ostentation and escaped the "rich preacher" label...
...Former senior militiamen now living in comfort in Jakarta or Kupang remain angry about losing East Timor. "We don't need support from Indonesia; we have the right to fight for our country," says East Timor's last governor, Abilio Soares. According to Indonesian police Brigadier-General Jaki Uly, the former militiamen still have guns. Some parade and drill with Indonesian civil defense units. "Refugees tell us of militia concentrations and training," says the U.N.'s Colonel Rob Holt. Mario Vieira, spokesman for the pro-integration political group Uni Timor Aswain (UNTAS), threatens economic turmoil for the new nation...
...folkies of the '60s and '70s had it easy: How hard was it, really, to denounce war and societal repression to an audience of kids who had less than selfless motives to want to get high, laid and not shot? Today Western popular music is aimed at largely comfortable, unrestricted youth in a country at peace. The political battlefields, more and more, are economic--class conflict, globalism, the environment. So making rebel music in some sense means attacking the pillars of your Nike-clad audience's own comfort...
Everybody has a favorite moment—a combination of sight, sound, and sense that simultaneously summons comfort and evokes excitement. For me, that moment occurs approximately seven minutes past the hour, when I sit ensconced in whatever happens to be passing for a theater, and the lights begin to dim. There’s a split-second when I’m not sure if my eyes are playing tricks on me—I wonder if in my eagerness for the show’s start I have seen a change in lighting that did not actually occur?...
...Michael Berressee weren’t so dazzling in the Broadway production, I might too have found the production wunderbar, but the cast largely disappointed, and try as he might, rock star-turned-leading-man Rex Smith always seemed artificial and forced to sing in a register below his comfort level. The one bright spot was Chuck Wagner, a man with a long list of Broadway credits, who stole all his scenes as General Harrison Howell, thanks to his booming baritone, robust comic persona, and classic good looks (all of which suggest that the tour would be better served with...