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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...harsh social and physical landscape outside it reinforced the assumptions driving the missionary project in China: the unquestioned belief in the moral superiority of Christianity and the cultural superiority of America; and the commitment to show the way not just to the love of Christ but also to a modern, scientific social order. The image of America that Luce had as a child was the idealized one his father and other missionaries created to justify their work. It was an image Luce never wholly abandoned...
...picnic in 19th century Paris, however, the lady is dressed stylishly in black, perched on an elegant futon. She has a telephone cradled in one hand and a cigarette dangling from the other. The image is a perfect one for Salts, a place where haute-bourgeois society meets its modern yuppie analog...
...their respective sports. That athletes would have such an urge is not surprising. That the domineering sense of compassion allowed them to indulge their urge is instructive. It seems that the last bastion of objective, fair standards and pure excellence is at last succumbing to the ubiquitous compassion of modern society. CSN should expect even more success...
...walk from the Kenmore T station to Fenway on game day offers an experience unfamiliar to many sports fans today. Too many modern ballparks sit dismembered from the communities which support them, connected to their cities by thin ribbons of asphalt. Missing from these suburban landscapes is the mix of eclectic shops, restaurants, scalpers and bums that makes the walk to Fenway worth taking...
...time to stop this insanity? The Spanish Inquisition was an example of general-court powers gone awry. Starr is a modern-day Torquemada with unrestricted powers to recklessly punish anyone he judges to be heretical. TOM BYFIELD Minneapolis, Minn...