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...what would seem to be your garden variety mugging. Not to worry--Sam's death does not appreciably cut Swayze's time on screen. It does however, cut down on his wardrobe. Swayze wears the same outfit when he meets the only person who can hear him, psychic Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg); when he has has Oda Mae contact Molly, and sting the man who hire his killer; when, finally, predictably, he saves Molly's life...
...Mary Oda, 61, now a San Fernando physician, was torn away from her first year at medical school. In the Manzanar, Calif., camp, dust whirled through gaps in the floor boards; nine people shared one cramped room, sleeping on bags filled with straw. Her family lost their farm, their equipment and one another. "We became separated during the evacuation and we never lived together as a family again...
...causes deep and lasting personal harm. Many of the Japanese-American internees were able to speak of their pain and bitterness only at the prompting of their children, who were raised during the decades when the civil rights movements vastly enlarged our understanding of democracy. Poignantly, Dr. Oda explained why it had taken so long: "I did not want my children to feel the burden of shame and feelings of rejection by their fellow Americans. I wanted them to feel that in spite of what was done to us, this was still the best place in the world to live...
...lost sheep and a smelly goat. Then he switched to his favorite sermon text, John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son" (in Hungarian: "Ugy szerette, Isten a világot, hogy egy szülött Fiát adta oda"). When Graham concluded by asking the Hungarians to signal their rededication to Jesus Christ, thousands of arms were raised in response...
...politics and culture of this time were dominated by three exquisitely discriminating and utterly ruthless daimyo, or warlords, who set out to unify the 200 squabbling fiefdoms of Japan: Oda Nobunaga and his successors, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Like the humanist condottieri of 15th century Italy, they built themselves impregnable and magnificent castles. "This room you see here," Hideyoshi would tell his guests as he gave them a tour of his seven-story castle at Osaka, "is full of gold, this one of silver; this other compartment is full of bales of silk and damask, that one with robes...