Word: daring
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...report on Vietnam's economic revival [COVER, April 24] misrepresents the extent of religious freedom there. Vietnam -- perhaps Asia's most spiritual country (it is overwhelmingly Buddhist) -- is entering the fifth decade of the communist government's campaign to eradicate all independent worship. Authorities still persecute religious leaders who dare to organize outside government-controlled churches. Roman Catholicism is decapitated by Hanoi's blocking the Vatican's appointment of bishops and imposing tight restrictions on those allowed to attend seminaries. Protestant church leaders who hold unauthorized meetings have been hit with staggering fines. In the past three years, the Puebla...
Continuing the campaign he began in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City tragedy to still what he has called voices of hatred and paranoia, President Clinton used a commencement speech at Michigan State University to address militia groups nationwide that advocate violence. "How dare you call yourselves patriots and heroes?" demanded the President. "There is no right to resort to violence when you don't get your way. There is no right to kill people . Those who claim such rights are wrong and un-American...
...chances are that much more than benefits bind faculty to their jobs at Harvard. Given the tenor of recent benefits debates involving the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, this situation seems especially likely. A combination of research facilities, world-renowned faculty and--dare we say?--students such as those found at Harvard can't easily be duplicated anywhere else...
...White House would dare say so last week, but the tragedy gave the President something to talk about larger than his political problems. Clinton had been trying to recast his presidency after the new Republican Congress wrapped up its much heralded first 100 days. But he hampered that effort with two comments. First he revived one of the most controversial periods of his own past by saying he felt vindicated in his opposition to the Vietnam War, thanks to the penitent memoirs of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Then Clinton strained to assert his own relevance to events in Washington...
...pracis for a Dostoyevsky tale: "Girls are just utterly out of my reach. They won't even let me draw them." He became a cult sensation--and got lots of girls--by drawing them as monuments to his awe and fear of women. They are mammoth fertility totems; they dare the cringing Crumb cartoon male to deify or defile them. In his work Crumb does both, which has earned him no end of scorn from people with protective sensibilities...