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Johnson, age 13, is a small soft-spoken soprano whose wide eyes shine behind his round glasses...
...Podolsky may or may not have known, I too am Jewish and sang in the Jewish a cappella group Mizmor Shir. It is thus with a more personal touch that I find his parallel to be misinformed and unhelpful. Yiddish is undoubtedly recognized as an official language, spoken primarily by Jews for centuries. To assert that Ebonics is as widely accepted as an official language among African-Americans is a leap that one should be wary to make, regardless of what Vaux has to say in defense of its validity. The debate over Ebonics remains decidedly that?...
...POPE JOHN PAUL II John Paul, wrote TIME, has "the world's bully-est pulpit," and few of his predecessors over the past 2,000 years had spoken from it as often and forcefully as he. In the punishing travels he undertook despite deteriorating health, he cast his message wide. His flock and the world listened, not always liking what they heard. The Pope strictly applied church doctrine, noted TIME, "to trouble the living stream of modernity," to excoriate self-indulgent and often tawdry secularism. He took unpopular stands on such issues as abortion and the ordination of women. Nonetheless...
TIME: You've all spoken about the importance of role models. Who were yours...
...reads any of us," laments Lillian Hellman in Imaginary Friends, Nora Ephron's new play about the literary feud between Hellman and Mary McCarthy. To be sure, these two writers are remembered at least as much for their spoken words as for the ones they put on paper. Hellman, the playwright and longtime leftist, made a famous show of defiance before the House Un-American Activities Committee: "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." McCarthy, an essayist and novelist who couldn't abide Hellman's politics or penchant for mixing fact and fiction...