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...restraint has roots in my faith. A few weeks ago, I heard two very important stories during the service. In the first, Jonah, a reluctant prophet recently released from a whale's belly preaches death and destruction to the city of Ninevah unless they repent. The city repents, is forgiven and is not destroyed. Jonah is furious at being made to look like a liar. God reminds the prophet that in anger, he has forgotten that life is not his to give and take--and there are a great many lives in Ninevah...
Belo believes Fretilin's savagery is neither forgotten nor forgiven. While he still advocates a referendum, the bishop is not as confident as Ramos-Horta seems to be about its outcome. Many East Timorese, he says, may even choose union with Indonesia. He offers an alternative to a potentially violent referendum: East Timor as an Indonesian province with special autonomy...
...congealed into formula. Putting one of its extravaganzas, Mystere, in a Las Vegas casino and planning new shows in Vegas and Walt Disney World are moves that rob Cirque of its old street-theater purity. Then there are all the mimes: twee kitsch for which no enterprise can be forgiven. So with its fifth international touring show, Quidam, now in its U.S. premiere in Santa Monica, California, we should probably say so long to Soleil...
...fired off another "don't go" advisory, and White House advisers faxed a four-page decision memo recommending military retaliation to the presidential campaign bus in Dyersburg, Tennessee. And last Wednesday, after setting off a sizable Mideast crisis, the very first Kurdish letter writer conveyed an all-is-forgiven missive to Washington, saying he did not want this to rupture his relations with...
Viewers of the Democratic Convention can be forgiven for wondering why there wasn't a changing table on the podium or a little Gymboree just offstage. The poster child of the Democratic Convention in Chicago last week was the child, and families were valued above all else, their virtue synonymous with parenthood. The reason is elementary: the political world revolves around baby boomers and now the baby boomers' world revolves around their children...