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...murder's immediate aftermath, most of the major pro-life organizations scrambled, convincingly, to dissociate themselves from Hill. Echoing more mainline groups, Operation Rescue director Flip Benham trumpeted, "We condemn it as murder, a sin. If I'd been with Paul Hill this morning, I would've stepped between him ((and Britton))." Expressing the fears of more temperate antiabortionists, Benham added, "This will have devastating effects on the number of picketers. There's a good number of folks who don't want to be associated with this...
...There are certain paradigms that literatureand philosophy give you about humanexperience--the paradigms of sin and redemption,of exile, of love and betrayal, of forbiddenknowledge," he adds. "Soap operas give us theseparadigms all the time, so why don't we give themat a level of higher artistic merit...
...President's feckless Bosnia policy represents a sin of omission -- an unwillingness or inability to rally the world against Serbia's aggression -- then, argued Robinson, Clinton's Haiti stance reflected an even more reprehensible sin of commission. "To interdict people and then turn them back to be killed without granting them ((asylum hearings))," he said, "makes the President complicit in the killing of those people...
...theme of the record "is kind of sin and redemption," says Cash. On the CD's first track, Delia's Gone, Cash sings about the thin line between love and hate: "Delia, oh Delia/ Delia all my life/ If I hadn't shot poor Delia/ I'd have had her for my wife." Later he sings of salvation in the gospel- inflected Down There by the Train, describing a heavenly train for wrongdoers seeking righteousness: "There's no eye for an eye/ There's no tooth for a tooth/ I saw Judas Iscariot carrying John Wilkes Booth." Cash's voice...
...Sin and redemption are not just topics for Cash's songs; they're themes in his career. He grew up in the tiny town of Dyess, Arkansas (pop. 464). After signing with legendary Sun Records -- Presley's first label -- in 1955, he recorded such hits as Folsom Prison Blues before moving to Columbia Records in 1958. Cash remained with Columbia for almost three decades and produced a formidable string of hits. Along the way he married June Carter, of the Carter Family Singers, a country-gospel group; they have a son as well as several children by previous marriages...