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Much of the religious right has been mute on immigration, whether because Scripture offers no clear conservative line or because conservatives themselves are split. But the silence irks many Hispanic Evangelicals, 15% of the U.S. Latino population and growing. Says the Rev. Walter Contreras, a leader in the 1,200-member Network of Hispanic Pastors of Southern California: "We've always been on board with [Anglo] Evangelicals. How can they not be on board with an issue that means so much to us? Focus on the Family--how can you not focus on our families, which are being divided...
Lowe lived a mute and by his own account diminished life for five decades in all before he finally got a break last year. He made it happen by standing in line for 13 hours at the Wise Country Fairgrounds in the mountains of southwestern Virginia, where a nonprofit volunteer group called the Rural Area Medical Health Expedition once a year provides free medical and dental treatment to all comers. For thousands of men and women like Lowe who crowd the health fair every year, it represents the only medical care they ever receive. The dentists couldn't help Lowe...
...jobs. Others paid a higher price. Hundreds of Indonesian Chinese, accused by rioters of being accomplices to a corrupt regime, lost their lives or were raped in the violence that accompanied the ouster of Indonesia's long-serving autocrat Suharto. Abandoned half-built buildings throughout Asian cities stood as mute reminders not only of the shattered hopes of many an empire builder but also those of ordinary workers who could no longer send home money to their village for their daughters' schoolbooks or their sons' medicines...
...pages). Just as Sixty Lights segued seamlessly into Dreams, this pained, poetic tale of a young girl wracked by dreams of speaking seems to have been born from its predecessor. "We take it for granted, don't we?" muses 12-year-old Perdita Keene, a free spirit made mute by the violent death of her English anthropologist father near Broome, Western Australia, in World War II. "The inspiration and expiration that presses the vocal folds, the movement of air from the trachea, the vibration of the voice box, the issuing-unthinking, automatic-of air released into the mouth and fashioned...
...Senior CIA officer] Rob Richer, who was with me at the meeting, piped up, "No sir, I believe he is working for DOD." All eyes shifted to Don Rumsfeld. "I'll have to check what his status is," Rumsfeld said. His undersecretary for intelligence, Steve Cambone, sat there mute. "I don't think he ought to be working for us," the president dryly observed...