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...second-rate refugee from summer stock. Don Schlitz has written music with a country twang but cornball lyrics ("He?s full of that old scratch /Impossible to catch"), and the odd, earth-toned sets make this Mississippi River town look like something the Pharoahs built. The show does rev up some lively melodrama in the second act, with an exciting cave climax that kids might enjoy. But this show has little to attract paying adults - unless they're looking for a rest after standing in line for tickets to "The Producers...
However, the Rev. Abraham Lincoln Woods, president of the Birmingham chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was more positive about the result. "It makes a statement around the nation and the world. If a guilty person can go without being brought to justice it means that the life of a black is not as valuable as a white...
...October 1997, the Rev. Sally Bingham of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral and Steve MacAusland, a Dedham, Mass., video producer, conceived of a ministry in the marketplace that could turn Sunday sermons about God's green earth into here-and-now environmentalism. Why stop at Ezekiel 36: 5--God lambastes all Edom for plundering his land--when they could actually persuade the faithful to stop their plundering and buy electricity from nonpolluting sources? In this way, they could ease their conscience and help limit the damage done by fossil-fuel-powered plants, which produce about 40% of U.S. carbon dioxide...
Inside Mass. Hall, PSLM members met again with two University representatives, the Rev. Dorothy Austin, co-master of Lowell House, and J. Bryan Hehir, head of the divinity school...
...material distrust between the police and the black community, even though the force has become increasingly black," says Scott Johnson, former city manager and current Cincinnati resident. "The problem is, there are no blacks in the upper echelons of the force." To change the police culture, says the Rev. Damon Lynch III, head of the Cincinnati Black United Front, "some people need to be fired. If nothing changes, nothing will change...