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...Patterson] talks dogma, if you know what we be saying...Listen to this Orlando rap, mahn...so it's hard to take him to seriously, if you know what we be saying. If you be looking for days o'rays, then you be looking in the wrong place...
...discovered Robert Mapplethorpe early last year on one of my many browsing tours of the Harvard Book Store. Coming from a society stifled by religous dogma, Mapplethorpe showed me a whole new world of expression. The New York artist's photography was a fascinating contrast of individual sight, perception and depiction. But just like the video is no substitute for movies on the big screen, a book is no substitute for the experience of standing in front of four larger than life images of Ajitto huddled up on a pedestal. So, this week, I went to the Institute of Contemporary...
...paradox of his rule: "The more he sought to disperse power, the more he found it necessary to concentrate power in his own hands." But as Doder and Branson point out, "Russia is a country that fervently needs an ideology, a set of beliefs, a religion." Much of the dogma that has shaped the past seven decades of Soviet life has already been abandoned, but what new faith will Mikhail Gorbachev offer his people...
More substantive changes are afoot. The ouster of Margaret Honecker, wife of deposed leader Erich Honecker, as Minister of Education put an end to a compulsory "civics" course heavily freighted with Communist Party dogma. In its place is a social-studies curriculum called Gesellschaftskunde, which encourages teachers and students to range over all sorts of topics. Recently, pupils spent an hour pondering "personal happiness." "It's such a new situation," says Uwe Klauke, 22, a trainee physics teacher. "We know so little about self-reliance and developing your own values. But I think inhibitions are breaking down...
Instead, his dogma is simple. He has little patience for those who refuse to acknowledge the struggle and suffering that dog the lives of human beings everyday throughout America's cities...