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...butt of a rifle as he jumped over the bars. "They grabbed me and an older man behind me and pushed us down to the pavement. I couldn't breathe or see. I had to go to a house and spray a water hose in my face." Gustavo Moller, an NBC audio technician, suffered a gash above his left eye when an agent pressed the barrel of an automatic rifle into his face as he stood in the front door. "It was the ugliest thing I've ever seen," Moller says. "This is the most inhumane...
...Most denominations spend on staff, charity and the building and maintenance of churches; leaders will invest a certain amount--in the case of the Evangelical Lutherans, $152 million--as a pension fund, usually through mutual funds or a conservative stock portfolio. The philosophy is minimalist, as Lutheran pastor Mark Moller-Gunderson explains: "Our stewardship is not such that we grow the church through business ventures...
...should not be influenced by special-interest groups or individual executives in this way. Not only is it unfair to those people who can't "afford" a member of Congress; it's also unfair to those who really should have the last say in it all--the voters. STEFAN MOLLER Lindome, Sweden...
Meanwhile, Sophie has to play detective on another front. From time to time she gets postcards that are intended for another 14-year-old, Hilde Moller Knag, who by coincidence also has an absentee father, serving with the U.N. forces in Lebanon. Who is this Hilde? Why is her mail addressed to Sophie? And is it just coincidence that Hilde and Sophie have the same birthday? Suffice it to say that the answers involve a talking dog and a magic mirror, as well as the relation of illusion to reality, free will vs. predetermination and -- shades of Pirandello -- fictional characters...
Still, Sophie's World may not be for everyone. The characters are half- dimensional, the plot creaks, and Gaarder's prose (or the translation by Paulette Moller) has a distinct flavor of bark. As fiction, Sophie's World deserves no better than a D+. But as a precis of great thought, Gaarder's tour de force rates a solid...