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Carolyn Staley, who lived next door to the Clintons when she and Bill were in high school, says that as a preacher's kid, she never even knew about the town's reputation as sin city. Did the Clintons know? I ask her. "Oh, yes, they were more sophisticated, more worldly-wise." Clinton's mother liked the gambling, and his stepfather, who was still drinking, flew into rages when he was not sure where she had been. In a deposition for divorce proceedings, the mother feared for her son's safety: "He has continually tried to do bodily harm...
...laying to rest the cold war at Fulton, Mo., the place where Winston Churchill declared it back in 1946. That vision must have disturbed many older- generation Soviets nurtured on the ideological red meat of East versus West, of a Soviet Russia saving the world from its capitalist original sin...
...director whose son is kidnapped. In a slick comic-book thriller, TIME contributor Martha Smilgis works a writer's hustle (Is it a book, or is it a screenplay?) in the area she knows best, Hollywood and % entertainment news. And in the tradition of Cecil B. DeMille, who condemned sin by taking his audience through frame after lascivious frame, she shows just how filthy the road to filthy lucre...
During this arduous process, voices of complaint from American women have been weeded out of the text and papal pronouncements brought to the fore. The current draft proclaims sexism to be a sin, in church or society. Dioceses are asked to establish women's commissions. Willingness to treat women as equals is a criterion of fitness for the priesthood. But the text drops previous urgings that the Vatican immediately consider letting women join the order of deacon, thus permitting them to perform many pastoral functions also filled by priests. The text weakens proposals for allowing women preachers and altar girls...
...Concerned Christians at Harvard, anundergraduate group, demands that the Rev. PeterJ. Gomes, who is gay, resign as minister ofMemorial Church because he preaches thathomosexuality is not a sin...