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...sufficient to deal with the problem, and complain that the new law poses a threat to non-Muslim Indonesians. "The law imposes the will of the majority that embrace Islam, is a form of religious discrimination and against the spirit of tolerance taught by the country's founders," says Theophilus Bela, chairman of the Christian Communication Forum. "It is an effort to divide the country...
...basis of competence, not tribal lines, religion or other factors. I'm looking forward to an Africa in which the majority of members of parliament belong to parties that are in opposition to the country's leader. Then we can expect meaningful and healthy discussions before policies are implemented. Theophilus Quayefio Accra Much of what has gone wrong in Africa since independence owes to an institutional approach to government. When the British were decolonizing in the late 1950s, they set up representative institutions broadly modeled on those at Westminster. The assumption was that democratic institutions that worked in one context...
...appeal. Like Griffith, Micheaux's feminine ideal seemed to be prim, virginal Lillian Gish; he insisted that his actresses wear chalk makeup to make them seem whiter, lighter - Gishier. "The first offense of the new film is its persistent vaunting of intra-racial color fetishism, "wrote the black critic Theophilus Lewis, reviewing a 1931 Micheaux talkie, "Daughter of the Congo," in the New York Amsterdam News. "Even if the picture possessed no other defects, this artificial association of nobility with lightness and villainy with blackness would be enough to ruin...
...soldiers from the Ikeja barracks - where no one was reported killed in the blasts - jeered Vice President Atiku Abubakar, forcing him to abandon an attempt to address them. Early assertions that the explosions were set off by a fire spreading from a nearby market were "premature," said Defense Minister Theophilus Danjuma. As the shaken, rumor-filled city grieved for its dead, the commander of the Ikeja barracks appeared on state television and denied that the blasts were the start of a coup attempt against President Olusegun Obasanjo. As the week ended, the embattled leader?s troubles grew when national police...
...name that was previously regarded as a misprint of "Amada," the most common form of his middle name. If the author sometimes relies too heavily on Freudian interpretations of symbols-" ... the adoption of the name Adam also has the ancillary effect of canceling God's direct presence-Theophilus [one of Mozart's middle names]"-it is a small fault when measured against the book's overall achievement...