Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Robert Orchard, managing director at the ART, said he was excited about having "master teachers from Russia present for the whole two-year program...
WGBH's program traces the policyshaping role of the former professor and influential liberal economist through the years of the Depression, the New Deal, the Kennedy White House, the Johnson administration and continuing into the present...
Nearer, My God (Doubleday; 313 pages; $24.95) is less a formal "autobiography of faith," as the subtitle has it, than a pastiche: part memoir, part commentary on religious issues past and present. No theologian by his own admission, Buckley has relied on others to do that heavy hitting. He submitted questions about the ordination of women, for example, to a "forum" of four Catholic converts, two of them priests, and prints their answers at length. On a more theoretical problem--how hell and eternal punishment are compatible with God's mercy--he cribs copiously from Difficulties (1934), an exchange...
...fact that the Promise Keepers cause alarm in feminist groups is more a commentary on the present state of the feminist movement than a justifiable fear. The apparent goal of the Promise Keepers is to save souls, and its message is biblical in nature. The only people who could truly be upset are female supremacists--not real feminists. As for founder Bill McCartney, he is a clear-cut example of a person who puts his money where his mouth is and a man to be truly admired, not feared. RICHARD JAMES SKAGGS MONTES Guatemala City...
...counterpart, Liu Hua Qui, that the ballooning trade deficit with China, $44 billion this year, was going to provoke a mega-political backlash. Liu replied that the deficit had many complex causes, including wrongheaded U.S. export controls. During a break, a frustrated Berger told an aide to buy a present for Liu. When the Chinese official unwrapped it, he found, instead of the traditional vase, a spanking-new Barbie--made in China, of course. Berger razzed him, "I want you to put that on your desk and leave it there until the trade deficit comes down." Later, Chinese officials quietly...