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...talks included such ex-boycotters as the apartheid-forever Conservative Party and the black-power Pan Africanist Congress. The conferees reached agreement on the agenda's main item: a resumption by April 5 of formal talks on constitutional issues like power sharing. Said A.N.C. secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa: "A torch of hope has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hope And Death | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...love as a life-force, the deepest well of compassion, that is capable of transforming itself into a death-force, with the peculiar annihilating energies of belief. Faith, the sweetest refuge and consolation, may harden, by perverse miracle, into a sword -- or anyway into a club or a torch or an assault rifle. Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute. The mystery is now on view among the Hindus and Muslims of India, among the Islamic fundamentalists of Egypt or Algeria, and among Orthodox Serbs and Bosnian Muslims and Catholic Croats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Name of God | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...Brian Martin's nosy, gleaming, gum smacking support buttresses the entire plot. I offer three snaps, air kisses, and a curtsy to these fine actors. To the rest of the cast and everyone else, gay or non gay, who worked on the production, I offer thanks for bearing the torch Oscar Wilde carved into a work...

Author: By Adam J. B. lane, | Title: New Notes on Camp | 3/11/1993 | See Source »

...tirade about men and relationships; classic disco moments bellow from painted lips; and many other gay (in both sense of the world) moments percolate through the show. It's refreshing to know that--despite all the recent tensions around gay issues and despite the prevalence of AIDS--a vibrant torch can still light up the stage. We will survive...

Author: By Adam J. B. lane, | Title: New Notes on Camp | 3/11/1993 | See Source »

...League men's basketball has witnessed a passing of the torch: Pennsylvania finally toppled Princeton from its four-year reign as king...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: The Bell Finally Tolls For the Tigers | 3/11/1993 | See Source »

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