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...Sobrino, who has written the most thorough study of Christ's nature based on Latin America's "liberation theology." The Maryknoll Fathers' Orbis Books will publish it in English in June as Christology at the Crossroads. Sobrino, a Jesuit and professor at the Universidad José Simeón Cañas in El Salvador, says that Christians working for justice should realize that Jesus was mistaken in his social outlook because he expected the imminent appearance of the kingdom of God. In fact, he thinks that Jesus had to undergo a "conversion" in his views...
...Kaleta learned their hockey in the small wheat growing and coal mining towns around Edmonton like Sherwood Park to the East, Red Deer to the South, St. Albert to the North, LeDuc, and Beaumont. If they didn't make it to the NHL, they played for the old local sime-pro teams: the Edmonton Flyers, the Olds Elks, and the Crow's Nest Pass Lascars...
...developing" nations since the colonial era have had to make some sharp changes in the way they handle their overseas empires. Some of the companies that have not adapted to new realities of local pride and politics have learned to regret it. The most recent example is Sime Darby, a rubber and palm-oil conglomerate in Malaysia that had been one of the stouter remaining pillars of Britain's overseas commercial empire. That pillar fell with a crash over New Year's with an upheaval on the board of directors that put the company under effective control...
...immediate cause of the postcolonial drama at Sime Darby was a disagreement over appointments to fill three vacancies on the twelve-member board last November. Chairman James Bywater, a British-born engineer who was a relative newcomer to Malaysia, insisted that three British members of his management team be nominated for the board. But a big Sime Darby stockholder, the government-controlled Pernas, a trading company with capital of $200 million, was just as adamant in pushing three Asian candidates of its own. Pernas had clout: it publicly admitted holding 8.5% of Sime Darby's stock, but may have...
What Bywater had apparently failed to reckon with was the rising strength of economic nationalism in Malaysia and the growing disenchantment of Sime Darby shareholders-now mostly Malaysians-with the largely British management of the firm, which many local critics viewed as a sore reminder of colonial exploitation...