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...DIED. CARDINAL JAIME SIN, 76, powerful Philippine Roman Catholic leader and political figure; in Manila. Named Archbishop of Manila in 1973, a year after former Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, Cardinal Sin became an outspoken critic of the authoritarian government. His influence over the Philippines' devoutly Catholic population helped spark the People Power protests that toppled two presidents?Marcos in 1986 and Joseph Estrada in 2001. "Politics without Christ is the greatest scourge of our nation," Cardinal Sin said at his 2003 retirement ceremony...
...revive the country's devastated economy. Communist insurgents are gathering strength and undertaking increasingly daring raids. Controversy continues over the murder of Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., the former senator who was shot and killed as he returned from exile two years ago this week. And last week Jaime Cardinal Sin, long a critic of the President, declared: "The Filipino has had enough of one-man rule. He has had enough of constitutional authoritarianism, of presidential dictatorship masquerading as democracy. The Filipino wants a return to genuine democracy...
Experienced agents acknowledge that it is common for friendly nations to spy on each other. "You do what you can," said former CIA Director Richard Helms, adding "Getting caught is the sin." Most observers doubt that Pollard passed along information of great importance, since Israel is already privy to most American secrets. "Pollard should be punished for his disloyalty," said one former officer, "not for the harm he caused to U.S. interests...
Niebuhr's most important achievement was countering what he considered the naiveté of activist Protestant liberals by rediscovering sin. In their viewpoint, humanity was good by nature, awaiting perfection through social reform and education. Although Niebuhr was thoroughly a modernist in theology and did not believe in the literal truth of Scripture, he found the doctrine of the Fall--humanity's lapse from its original moral purity--to be a telling myth. The race, he asserted, is ineradicably given to self-deception, and in the real world the search for moral righteousness is filled with ambiguity. His approach became known...
...wildly eclectic mix of participants on the panel, convened at the annual publishing industry tradeshow Book Expo America, included indie creators Adrian Tomine (Optic Nerve) and Charles Burns (Black Hole) with superhero/pulp auteur Frank Miller (Sin City) and novelist-turned-superhero-comics writer Brad Meltzer (Identity Crisis), who sat next to comic autobiographer and movie celebrity Harvey Pekar (American Splendor.) Thanks to Pekar's irrepressible personality, things got a little warm when he denounced superhero books as "escapist" and worthless when there were more important things to spend your energy on like "getting Bush out of office." Meltzer later gave...