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...contradictory impact that his blinks might have on one another. David Kuo, a former deputy director of the President's Office of Faith- Based and Community Initiatives, argued last week on the Beliefnet website that the President had blinked at the well-publicized faith-based antipoverty initiative and then forgotten it. Kuo, who is a friend of mine and truly believes in the President's commitment to the policy, remains mystified by the disconnect between passion and action. Blinks are ephemeral; policy is distressingly concrete...
...forgotten that deep differences remain. Last week, the Kyoto protocol on climate change came into effect without the support of America, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases. The International Criminal Court, which the E.U. considers an ideal forum to deal with the slaughter in Darfur, is opposed by the U.S. And major disagreements persist over how best to stymie Iran's apparent intention to develop nuclear weapons, whether to lift the arms embargo on China, whether to sanction Syria for occupying Lebanon and aiding Iraqi insurgents and Hezbollah terrorists, and whether Europe should brand Hezbollah itself a terrorist...
Many of the episodes focus on America's largely forgotten treatment of its Japanese immigrants through a series of execrable laws. (Japanese immigrants were not allowed citizenship until 1952.) One episode focuses on the San Francisco initiative to ban all Asians from public school. Years later, in 1994, California's proposition 187 (later found unconstitutional) banned illegal immigrants from receiving publicly funded services such as schooling. In another semi-comic retelling of an actual incident, Charlie and Frank, working on a farm outside the city, get herded out of town by angry, armed white locals. Another fascinating sequence involves Charlie...
This example of sharing faith, when it is easy to do so, defines a town composed of people that have forgotten how to share their sadness and joy. Opal and Preacher, like the other townsfolk, live in their own bubbles of life, brushing against each other’s quirks and eccentricities as carelessly as one browses the aisles of a grocery store...
This example of sharing faith, when it is easy to do so, defines a town composed of people that have forgotten how to share their sadness and joy. Opal and Preacher, like the other townsfolk, live in their own bubbles of life, brushing against each other’s quirks and eccentricities as carelessly as one browses the aisles of a grocery store...