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...past campaign: in 1980 he and four doctor friends founded Physicians Against Nuclear War. Five years later they were sharing a Nobel Peace Prize with some like-minded Soviets, at the helm of a 150,000-doctor international organization. His success, he notes, depended on not getting too hung up in divisive specifics, and that is his guiding principle now. He doesn't want VOTF to be seen as just one more group of liberal Catholics demanding women priests and an end to celibacy. Instead he envisions the group as a congress for various political parties of Catholics...
...explain gleefully his fondness for the revolutionary score. Born in 1963 in China's central Hebei province, Jiang was the son of a senior captain in the People's Liberation Army. The family moved house a lot. Jiang affectionately recalls the rustic province of Guizhou where cured hams hung inside neighbors' homes and unattended warehouses of machine parts became treasure troves for mischievous 10-year-olds. It was in Guizhou at the height of the Cultural Revolution that the adolescent Jiang saw a performance of The Red Detachment of Women. "Watching the women on the stage with guns and short...
...anyone knows, Baldwin had not told a fib in years, but the last one she did tell was a doozy. On her widely publicized resume, she misrepresented the school from which she earned her bachelor's degree and listed a Ph.D. she never finished. The lies hung around until an alumni magazine threatened to reveal them last month. Baldwin fessed up and left the U.S.O.C. before she could be shown the door...
...seminars and clubs on university campuses--activities that don't at first reveal the nature of the religion--to attract unsuspecting recruits. Wherever the cult's identity emerges, trouble follows; towns across Japan have protested the group's presence. Outside its headquarters in Tokyo's Setagaya ward, neighbors have hung large banners: AUM GO AWAY...
Then, in the most important league showdown of the season, Harvard narrowly averted disaster against top Ivy challenger Cornell, who had hung tough, just a half-game back in the standings...