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...Protestant paramilitaries, were sharing canapes and drinks with Catholic leaders who only 15 months ago were their bitterest enemies. Clinton met with all the major Catholic and Protestant leaders and paid tribute to their efforts at holding the cease-fire. He spoke for 25 minutes with the Rev. Ian Paisley, the sour patriarch of Protestant unionism...
...later speakers, the Rev. Thomas Chittick of the University Lutheran Church, said the Harvard student-run shelter in the church's basement has helped his congregation...
...welcome one. The drama opens with the Rev. Lionel Espy (Josef Sommer) alone on the stage--or perhaps he is not alone, for we catch him in a moment of intense prayer. (The play captures many of its characters in prayer, a device that neatly resuscitates the traditional dramatic soliloquy.) Espy is an aging, equivocating figure caught in an equivocal time and place: contemporary South London, a run-down environment in which brutality and indifference raise doubts about the church's relevance. He's the sort of man whose ability to see both sides of a question is cited...
...Rev. Jesse Jackson, who joined the march only after a deal was struck to broaden its organizational base and make it more ecumenical, had a very powerful vision of the day. "What you saw was a great display of pain, dignity and discipline," he says. "I addressed the march based upon need. In a society, we simply cannot be guilty or innocent by association. We must have the right of free association. To ignore Jewish sensibilities would be a mistake, but to have stayed away would also have been a mistake...
Along with local pastor and black activist Rev. Eugene Rivers, West talked about the roles that he and Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan played in the march, which attracted more than 400,000 people to Washington to hear prominent members of the black community speak on issues facing black...