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...viceroys allied themselves with the elite who held the rest of the country in feudal servitude. (Among the descendants of that elite: President Aquino.) The masses followed their masters who, intent on preserving their privileges, accommodated their American overlords. In turn, Filipinos integrated the Americans, turning them into ritual kin. Americans became big white brothers, inextricably bound to look after their little brown brethren...
...although both actors are able to suspend reality for awhile, they have essentially been assigned an impossible task. Lawrence and Joanna are not your average couple. And so, despite the valiant attempts of the cast, the audience all too often feels like the unwanted guest of some private family ritual...
...prime market for Hybels' soft-sell pitch is what he calls "unchurched Harrys," 25-to-45-year-old professionals who have become disenchanted with the stodgy ritual and sanctimoniousness of many traditional churches. "This is the generation that grew up on television," says Hybels. "You have to present religion to them in a creative and visual way." The multimedia weekend services are primarily intended to attract this group into the church. Holding them together is the job of the more Bible-based Wednesday-evening services and the church's 70 subministries. In addition to offering the traditional Sunday school programs...
...ritual rhetoric could not paper over the underlying problems in the relationship between the two allies. Chief among them is Japan's stubborn trade surplus with the U.S., which now seems stuck at more than $50 billion a year. After shrinking during much of 1988, the trade gap widened significantly last November, leading some economists to conclude that the improvement has at least temporarily stalled. The trade gap has defied such remedies as the dollar's steep two-year decline, which was expected to slow Japanese exports to the U.S. by making them more expensive. One reason for the lack...
...become a familiar ritual: Roman Catholic academics launching a public broadside against the Pope. But last week's outburst was exceptional both for the numbers -- 167 theologians from West Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Switzerland -- and for the timing. The so-called Cologne Declaration came on the heels of protests by clergy and lay people over John Paul II's choice of conservative European Archbishops...