Word: needfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Judas said, "If you pardon me, help me leave then." He reached up and seized the rope in both hands. He'd need to climb the tree to make it work...
Judas lurched around, thinking the voice was too familiar. But the face was indescribably changed; Jesus' old fire and wit were gone. This man looked not remotely childish but utterly new, just born at sunrise, this April Sunday. So Judas said, "All the help I need--thanks anyhow--would be for you to leave...
...when the man finished, he raised both hands toward Judas and said, "Jude, go to your father now; he'll need you for the planting. The others won't harm you; I'll warn them off." The man's upright hands were pierced with deep wounds, just below the palms...
...visit last July, the first ever by a U.S. Chamber of Commerce chief. Other high-profile delegations--including one led by Illinois' Republican Governor George Ryan in October--descended on Havana soon after, scoping the possibilities of selling everything from long-grain rice to fiber-optic cable. "[The Cubans] need everything in the world--technology, farms, hospitals," says Ryan. "Illinois would be in a prime position to help them." In a key step toward that goal, Missouri's Republican Senator John Ashcroft, prodded by U.S. farmers desperate for new global markets, introduced a bill this fall to eliminate the stringent...
That's the point, says Elena Freyre, executive director of the Cuban Committee for Democracy in Miami. "The next leader of Cuba will be from Cuba, not Miami," she says. "There are people there we need to start reaching out to." Freyre concedes that trading with Castro, now 73, could prop him up in the short run. More important, she insists, is ensuring that his successor is market- and democracy-minded. And since Castro blames the embargo for worsening Cuba's moribund economy--a cover for his own socialist blunders and human-rights abuses--why not take away his alibi...