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...services. In 115 degrees heat, a white-robed sea of penitents swarmed around the Sacred Mosque, where the devout come to touch the Black Stone, a meteorite inside the shrine that millions of pilgrims have worn smooth over the centuries in the belief that it will absolve them of sin. Suddenly the worshipers' hymns and shouts of Allahu-Akhbar! (God is great) were drowned out. Crying "Death to America! Death to the Soviet Union! Death to Israel!," ragged lines of Iranian demonstrators began weaving through the crowds. Many carried posters of Khomeini that they waved over the heads...
That does not mean, of course, that Congress is without sin. Republican Senator David Durenberger, former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was sharply criticized in March for telling a Jewish group in Miami that the CIA had recruited an Israeli army officer to provide classified information on Israeli forces during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. He made this slip during the uproar over the life-imprisonment sentence imposed on an American, Jonathan Jay Pollard, who was caught spying for Israel. In a 1983 incident, members of the Intelligence Committees commented publicly on U.S. and CIA support for the Nicaraguan...
...Longworths and their circle are vivid people. No one in this book needs money; no one is at a loss for words. But they suffer as well as sin, and their human failings are drawn with a compassion that makes the author's moral tickling tolerable. At 36, Wilson already has a formidable literary career. He peoples his little worlds lavishly, and his characters are the creations of an exceptionally alert and abundant mind. The Healing Art (1980) was an early dazzler, trenchant but somewhat raveled. Wise Virgin (1982) was perhaps his best-constructed novel. Now, in Love Unknown...
...strain of righteousness lies deep in the American character. As John Gunther wrote in Inside U.S.A., "Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea." That good idea combines a commitment to man's inalienable rights with the Calvinist belief in an ultimate moral right and sinful man's obligation to do good. These articles of faith, embodied in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution, literally govern our lives today. Meanwhile the compulsions to repent and punish sin remain just beneath the skin, erupting like fever blisters in times of stress and producing a rash...
...sought to deflect responsibility, first claiming that his only mistake was not realizing that his meetings with Donna Rice could be "misconstrued," then blaming the media for the mess he was in. Even Jim Bakker, who by profession alone should have an intimate acquaintance with the theological concept of sin, resisted simply confessing his dalliance with Jessica Hahn. Instead, Bakker insisted that his troubles were all part of a "diabolical plot" by rival preachers...