Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while I am on the subject of advice, here's some more...
...believer--he was raised a Presbyterian, passed through a period of Christian Fundamentalism while young, but then rejected what he has since called "the narrowness of view" of evangelicals. He has written about being "open" to the essential truth of all faiths, but today he declines to discuss the subject. "That's one of the places where I draw the line," he says, and that feels refreshing in a year when other pols call press conferences to discuss their personal relationships with the Lord. For Bradley, though, this doesn't seem to be a tactical move so much...
Giuliani, who is likely to run for Senate against Hillary Rodham Clinton, saw an opportunity. "He knows many people are uncomfortable with taxpayers subsidizing upper-middle-class decadence," says Fred Siegel, professor of U.S. history at New York City's Cooper Union. To subject this move by Giuliani to crass political analysis is to see brilliance; he won't win the artsy crowd anyway. Upstate voters, as well as the Roman Catholics across the state who often form a bloc of swing voters, will see him as protecting basic values. And Clinton must defend the art or keep quiet. Wisely...
...superhuman" feats of local shamans on his TV show.) "The sincere advocacy of freedom of religious belief is based on our understanding of the dialectical materialistic theory," says Ye Xiaowen, director of the State Council's Religious Affairs Bureau. "It is our concept of God." God, therefore, is subject to "sensible, cautious and scientific choice." As Ye wrote in 1996, "We must definitely adopt Lenin's attitude on such questions: 'Be especially cautious,' 'Be most rigorous,' and 'Think things over...
...time when I viewed Chris Rock with disgust. I could not find the humor in any of his antics. However, I finally settled down to watch this young genius at work [SHOW BUSINESS, Sept. 13]. He makes me laugh (to the point of hysterics) but also touches on subject matter that is highly political. Only he could have invited anti-affirmative action hero Ward Connerly on his TV show to tell him why we need affirmative action more than ever. When Chris Rock makes a joke, we should all listen. No one today can tell it the way he does...