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...Ireland's peace agreement today after having failed to stop it in May's referendum. Dissident Republicans signaled their intentions yesterday by detonating a car bomb near a police station in Newtownhamilton, but anti-agreement Unionists are relying on the ballot rather than the bullet. Protestant hardliners led by Reverend Ian Paisley hope they can win enough seats in today's election for the new Northern Ireland Assembly to gum up the works. "They say they're out to defend the Union," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "But that's just a coded way of saying they...
Sisters and brothers, the subject of today's sermon is that light of our lives, the Queen of Soul, sister Aretha Franklin. Preach, Reverend...
...Preach, Reverend...
Even at Harvard, it is not enough to nourish the mind. People also need something for the soul. As head of Memorial Church, Reverend Peter J. Gomes has the formidable task of feeding the university's "spiritual hunger." But this is a task extends beyond exploring the scriptures. Hailed as one of the seven best preachers in America, Gomes satiates the religious appetite with sermons that his audience savors, replete with advice on how to join the practical to the spiritual--from how to focus for an exam to how to extract principles out of an amoral world...
Boston magazine ignored this when they published their recent feature on W. E. B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., titled "Head Negro in Charge." The outcry over that term that came from Reverend Eugene Rivers shouldn't come as a surprise...