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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opportunity to repent. It is here that John Coffey transcends the black and white of this world, elevating the struggle between good and evil to a spiritual plane. During the climactic scene in which Edgecomb takes Coffey's hand through the bars of his cell, Coffey rewards Edgecomb's faith in him by letting him see the evil that he sees. With sparks flying in the background, Edgecomb glimpses Coffey's insight, and realizes the truth...

Author: By By RICHARD Ho, | Title: A Man, a Mouse, a Mile, Panama | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

McLennan, who is also the Tufts University Chaplain, sat for more than an hour after the panel meticulously signing over 70 copies of his book, Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Lost Its Meaning, copies of which had quickly sold out. Some attendees spoke to the author as if he were their personal spiritual leader...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Doonesbury Inspiration Scotty McLennan Speaks at Div. School | 12/8/1999 | See Source »

...humor" is the assertion that the endangerment suffered by minorities in general, and queers in particular, is also illusory. They suffer discrimination; we only cry it. We are at pains to note that no conservative has lost his job, been disowned by his family, expelled from his community of faith, barred from marriage or adoption, had every aspect of his sexual life criminalized--or, certainly, been brutally beaten to death--based solely on his political sympathies...

Author: By Nicole Carbellano and Michael K. T. tan, S | Title: Debating the Meaning of 'Coming Out' | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

...claim would seem to be the preservation of reliable accounts of the career, teaching, death and resurrection of one extraordinary man. Many modern scholars, however, have tended to see them as propaganda, as campaign biographies--documents that contain fragments of actual history, but history so shaped and transformed by faith as to require caution in the reader who seeks firm fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesus Of Nazareth Then And Now | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...Tokyo stock market surges higher. Economists now cheer as banks that once could have bought small countries desperately merge or plead for a white knight (even foreigners are welcome) to save them from insolvency. Behind this seemingly misplaced optimism in Japan's ailing economy, however, is not so much faith in the ability of these stumbling Goliaths to right themselves as it is faith in people like Hiroshi Mikitani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Start-Ups: What's Bad For Japan Inc.... | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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