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...averaged one new housing start annually for the past 17 years, among the lowest building rates in the nation. But last week, in a counterpoint to the sorrow of the deadliest fire in nearly 50 years, the city also offered a sign of hope. As the choir of gospel singers sang and the mayor beamed, Detroit opened its first new inner-city housing development in 30 years...
...deeply saddened that he has lentcredibility to Reverend Gomes' attempt to rewritethe Gospel of Christ," Anderson said in responseto the president's statement...
...1980S WERE THE WORST OF times for critics of that debt-propelled decade, they were the best of times for Wall Street Journal editor Robert Bartley. From his pulpit at the head of the Journal's editorial page, Bartley preached the gospel of tax cuts and deregulation that became known as Reaganomics and hurled anathemas at heretics who argued that the government had a positive role to play in the U.S. economy. While Bartley's polemics sometimes clashed with facts reported in the Journal's news columns, which were full of tales of greed and corruption in the executive suite...
ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN capitalist gospel, it is no sin to go belly up. Quite to the contrary, U.S. firms enjoy the most liberal bankruptcy laws on earth -- a privilege strengthened by a provision of the code known as Chapter 11 that holds creditors at bay while often allowing sick firms to bleed new buckets of red ink and still operate for years...
...phrase "black musical" usually means either a gospel rafter-rattler or a nightclub evening of raunch and funk, typically highlighted by frenzied tap dancers and some enormous female singer with a voice like a howitzer. There have been exceptions that accorded blacks roles of dignity and depth (the richest emotionally, Dreamgirls, ironically was crafted by whites). But the norm is jumping and jiving, as in the new Five Guys Named Moe and the amiable gumbo of jubilant New Orleans sounds The High Rollers...