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...news of the pledges' success was met with jubilation from virginity promoters, including Jimmy Hester of True Love Waits, a high-profile abstinence organization that has encouraged virginity pledges since 1993. "This study is really the first one that provides strong data that proves that pledges do make a difference," Hester told the New York Times...
...translated into English by Hester Velmans (Doubleday; 434 pages; $25), it is a frankly autobiographical story in which the heroine, Lian, joins the tradition of the wise child. To call her a Mandarin Huck Finn may be a bit of a reach, but it makes the point, which is that sometimes it takes an innocent to see society's hypocrisies...
...entered the U.S. as an illegal herself. Born in 1949 in the poor farming village of Shengmei in China's coastal Fujian province, she made her way to Hong Kong and then to the U.S. in 1981. After opening a small variety shop on Hester Street, then on the outskirts of Chinatown, she somehow obtained naturalization papers. A year later she was joined by her husband and children. According to Peter Kwong, a professor at Hunter College and an expert on people smuggling, she appeared at a fortuitous time, when ties between China and the U.S. were warming, opening trade...
...tolerant to a fault." Out there--in the world in which we will all be living in just a few short years--it's not a matter of worrying about a roommate moving out. It's a matter of discrimination and of violence. The names Matthew Shepherd and Rita Hester terrify us because we can never forget the kind of brutal violence that ended their lives. It's a world where there are people willing to slaughter two men in their bed because they believe it is God's will. There is no conservative minority in that world. Out there...
Among the messiness of her campaign headquarters, Hester lived in her home during the summer and fall until the election...