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...world's leaders will be forced to address the fate of the poor and marginalized in whose name the protesters claim to speak. But this is false. At the G-8 meeting of 1998 in Birmingham, England, and the one a year later in Cologne, Germany, a sandal-wearing, hymn-singing crowd--many of whose members had been recruited in churches--ringed the host cities to argue peaceably for a reduction of the debts owed by the world's poorest nations. In very large measure, that campaign has been won; in their statement about the riots in Genoa...
...most populist performance of his career. He appeared on the rostrum overlooking the crowd?near the same place Chairman Mao Zedong had reviewed a million Red Guards, the shock troops of the Cultural Revolution?and waved his arms like a conductor as the masses sang along with a revolutionary hymn that boomed from loudspeakers. The roar of support was deafening. "Seeing him was like a dream; I will treasure this night forever," said Xu Zhenyi, a bicycle repairman who clutched a special victory edition of the state newspaper, the People's Daily...
...procession down the aisle of the Denver church would have done any Episcopal congregation proud. The grand hymn Allelujiah! Sing to Jesus! His the scepter, His the throne pealed out, and some 50 clerics approached the altar in white robes and red stoles. A circle of clergy laid hands on the head of Thaddeus Rockwell Barnum, 44, a priest from South Carolina. When Barnum arose, he was a much changed man. For one thing, he was a bishop. But not of the Episcopal Church USA, whose collar he had worn for 14 years. He was now a missionary...
...refused permission to dock. The ship's captain then tried Benin and Togo, but they also declined to accept the passengers, who claimed to be refugees from fighting in their homeland. As the ship drew into Lagos they were too exhausted and hungry to celebrate but sang a hymn praising God for their deliverance...
...audience in Sanders Theatre, which filled the mezzanine and spilled over into the balcony, also heard the Commencement Choir sing two anthems and later joined in a rendition of the College hymn, “Fair Harvard,” to close the ceremony...