Word: presbyterian
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...midst of his own grief, Clifford found the number of Maffeo's boss and called to say she was alive but in very bad shape. Her boss then contacted the family, who eventually found her in critical condition at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, burned over so much of her body that the doctors required the family to put on scrubs before seeing her. When they were finally reunited, Maffeo insisted that they track down the man who saved...
DIED. ROBERT MCAFEE BROWN, 81, witty, accessible Presbyterian theologian who championed ecumenism and civil rights and served with Elie Wiesel on President Carter's Holocaust Commission; in Greenfield, Mass. Brown, whom TIME once called "the Catholics' favorite Protestant," co-wrote the book An American Dialogue to help dispel anti-Catholic prejudice against John F. Kennedy...
...over his policy of rapprochement with North Korea. Sit down with the opposition leaders, they urged, and forge a national consensus on how to deal with Pyongyang. Above all, step back from the day-to-day fray of party politics and be more presidential. Says Park Jong Wha, a Presbyterian church leader: "I told him, You are the Nobel prizewinner. You should focus on becoming an elder statesman. You should be like South Africa's Nelson Mandela...
...urged, and forge a consensus on how to deal with Pyong-yang. Above all, step back from the day-to-day fray of party politics and act presidential. Otherwise, they warned, his presidency could unravel. "I told him: 'You are the Nobel Prize winner,'" recalls Park Jong Wha, a Presbyterian minister. "'You should focus on becoming an elder statesman. You should be like South Africa's Nelson Mandela...
...Here's how Edison Chen, one of the young rebels challenging the autocracy of amiability, describes it: "No sex. No drugs. Maybe a little rock 'n' roll." The ballads rise with a decorous lilt; even most of Cantopop's uptempo numbers could be sung (with English lyrics) in a Presbyterian church in Iowa. Most of the singers have good manners too. Perky, dreamy, neatly dressed, well behaved, they are the rock stars any mom would want her kid to marry...