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Since 1979, fundamentalists have inexorably gained power in the biggest and richest U.S. Protestant denomination, the 15 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. Last year the rightward tilt was affirmed when fundamentalist Morris Chapman of Texas was elected president over Georgia's Daniel Vestal, leader of the moderates. Fundamentalists (who prefer to be called conservatives) have since piled pressure on Baptist seminaries to teach the literal historical accuracy of the Bible. They have also sacked recalcitrant officials like Lloyd Elder, head of the Sunday School Board, the huge denominational publishing house based in Nashville...
Heading for the finish line, Wickhamhas scored a mere 275 points in his final round, placing him 252 in a field of 360. He gives the bandit a kick with his black snakeskin boot. Tilt! "They put this machine in cold water," he growls. "It's giving me ice cubes." Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! The tournament is over. Mr. Slot King has crapped...
...most serious problems with the old/NWO, however, are likely to be of our own devising. They will arise whenever we tilt too heavily to one side or the other of our national character. Too often, American idealism metastasizes into utopianism. Making the world safe from aggression, or even from injustice, is not the same thing as making it safe for democracy -- an exercise in political evangelism that is an altogether more difficult task. Woodrow Wilson approached the peace talks ending World War I as the consummation of a democratic crusade. Their failure ruined Central Europe for 70 years...
WITH NO OBVIOUS ENEMY to engage, AWARE Week is left to tilt at the windmill of "racial insensitivity," (provisionally defined as "any speech or action that offends three or more members of any minority group"). Though a nebulous evil, insensitivity is assumed to be not only pervasive, but just as harmful as actual racism...
...American government. "I was very upset," says Noel Koch, then the Pentagon's top official for counterterrorism policy and now a security-management consultant. "I called my colleagues at State and asked, 'What the hell are we doing?' " They didn't like the policy either, but the decision to tilt toward Iraq in the war had been made at the top of the U.S. government. "It was a fact of life," says Koch. The officials soon realized that there would be no retaliation against Iraq. If they were going to do anything about the attacks masterminded in Baghdad, it would...