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As a nurse and a Christian, I find it difficult to believe that God would direct Oral Roberts to build an edifice such as the City of Faith [Nov. 16] in Tulsa, a metropolis already overloaded with hospital beds. Surely He would have selected a more deserving location, like Mother...
Pixote is one of the most powerful films ever made about poverty and oppression in Latin America. Its lack of overt moral commentary is more than compensated for by its stark, at times shocking, realism. Even the most graphic American films seem tame by comparison. Babenco uses scenes of crude...
'WE DO NOT LIVE in the past, but the past in us," said the historian whom Thomas Sowell quotes in the concluding chapter of Ethnic America. Yet, as Sowell points out, the United States is heir to many different pasts. Reaching as far back as the walled-in ghettoes of...
They call Johannesburg "The Golden City," but it doesn't live up to its name. It is a predominantly ugly metropolis. Although a few handsome towers dot the skyline, most of the buildings that line the streets are old, undistinguished and grime-encrusted. A guide termed Johannesburg "a city with...
Amid the outpouring of dry statistics, the rich fabric of an independent culture has begun to emerge, one so affluent that it may well have rivaled ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. In the halcyon years of the archive (c. 2350-2250 B.C.), the metropolis lured traders from Persia, present-day Turkey...