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...comes to shellfish, size does matter Losers MICHAEL JACKSON King of Pop opens trading at NASDAQ, only to see stocks tumble. The troubled exchange may have to tap a heavyweight like Pee Wee Herman JACQUES CHIRAC French President photographed in the buff by paparazzi while on holiday. Editors recoil, but you might get the pix for a euro or two on e-Bay RODNEY KING Brutality victim is arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of PCP. First suspect ever to be searched for cameras before guns...
Under these conditions, what is a missionary allowed to do? Standing on a soapbox and preaching the Second Coming of Christ is definitely out, but most Christian workers in China recoil at such evangelical stereotypes. Few even want to be called missionaries, a term that rankles government officials. Generally, church-led development projects are permitted, as are teaching and health training, but overt proselytizing is not. If asked, foreign Christians can give a Bible to a friend but offering one unasked is frowned upon."If a teacher talks privately of Christianity, and a student decides to convert, that...
...victims don't cry out. Doctors and obituaries do not give the killer its name. Families recoil in shame. Leaders shirk responsibility. The stubborn silence heralds victory for the disease: denial cannot keep the virus...
...women raped by Larry Harper in the early 1990s would probably recoil at his name's being even remotely linked to the prophet, but Gina Holder, who attended Bible studies with Harper following his escape from a Texas prison last month, says the convicted rapist knew his Scripture with a prophet's acumen. Holder knew Harper as "Brother Jim," one of seven companions who stayed at the Woodland Park, Colo., RV park that she co-owns. She remembers him in khakis, penny loafers, buttoned-down shirts. "He was very preppy," says another Bible-study participant. "He looked like a Mormon...
...York's School of Visual Arts, with an additional background of architectural drafting in the offices of I.M. Pei. Every one of the seven essays in the show's thick catalog pays effusive tribute to the sum of LeWitt's virtues, his "openness" and his "honesty," his recoil from the cult of "heroic" personality and his generous encouragement of a score of his contemporaries, from the sculptor Eva Hesse to the critic Lucy Lippard. Selfless, sober, rational, public spirited--what, one is frivolously tempted to wonder, is such a paragon doing in the Whitney, an institution more noted...