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...nature. It deals with possible heresies, which requires an approach very different from that of a pastor dealing with his flock. There were two sides to John Paul II: his doctrinally conservative side, and his pastorally brilliant side. That enabled him to communicate effectively with his flock and garner a certain sympathy even when announcing a teaching that some of them disagreed with. It was one of his great gifts to be able to maintain a connection even with many of the people of his Church who disagreed with him. And that pastoral brilliance softened his conservative legacy within...
...beyond reach. (Evidence of such ambitions abounds, from the construction of 14 "enduring" U.S. military bases in Iraq, a development highlighted by Senator John Kerry during last year's presidential race that went unchallenged by the administration, to remarks by the Pentagon's first post-Saddam administrator, General Jay Garner, that the U.S. priority in Iraq was to win basing rights for a long-term U.S. military presence that he compared to the role played by the Philippines as a coaling station to the U.S. Navy over a century. Iraqi democracy, however, appears to have rendered them moot.) There...
...Norma Rae and Places in the Heart) won her two Academy Awards and forever erased her flibberti-Gidget, Flying Nun image. At first glance, Sally Field, 38, seemed to be mining the same emotional vein in Murphy's Romance, the new movie she made in Arizona with James Garner. It is about a divorcée who moves to a small Western town to take over a horse farm with her twelve-year-old son. But wait, this is no grim battle with mean local bosses or foreclosing bankers. "It's a lighter film," says Director Martin Ritt, who worked with...
...attendant social and economic problems, the last thing our country needs is a flood of additional people. It is high time for the U.S. to end its unrealistic and anachronistic immigration and refugee policies by drastically restricting the admission of newcomers to our shores. Russell S. Garner Arlington...
...Chinese leaders, too, are prone to Japan-baiting to garner popular support. An incursion into Japanese waters last November by a Chinese submarine was applauded on many mainland websites as a sign of growing Chinese power. In recent weeks, several nationalist websites that were previously shut down by Beijing have been allowed to campaign against Japan's U.N. Security Council bid, signaling that China might use a populist outpouring as a rationale for blocking Japan's membership. In Beijing last Saturday, thousands of anti-Japan protesters were allowed to march to the Japanese embassy, where they threw bottles and demanded...