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...recent column (Opinion, Feb. 4), Susannah B. Tobin expresses dismay over the trend toward an increasing confluence of church and state. In particular, she cites the recently successfully plea of Pope John Paul II to commute the death sentence of a Missouri criminal. Like Tobin, I appreciate the outcome of the papal gesture but do not believe that religious leaders should determine political policy by sole virtue of their sectarian positions...
Amid the hubbub of the trial, Daschle's low-key style has made it easy to overlook his skills. And the unity of Senate Democrats last week made it easy to forget that they have not always been pushing toward the same goal. In the wake of the President's Aug. 17 admission that he had been lying to the country for months, Senate Democrats appeared to have both the ability and the inclination to throw him overboard. Senator Joseph Lieberman rebuked Clinton, calling his behavior "immoral" and "disgraceful." Several other Senators followed suit, and some privately considered calling...
...JOHN PAUL II. The Dome's 70,000 capacity is stretched to 100,000. Betty and Ed, after hours on a chartered yellow school bus and in line for metal detectors, have drawn spectacular second-row seats: they can almost touch the stream of priests flowing across the floor toward the great papal seal. A jumbo screen shows the approaching Popemobile, just half an hour away. She twists a silver ring again and again around her middle finger...
...perhaps the only art form that celebrates capitalism openly. To be sure, filmmakers pore over weekend grosses, but it would be surprising for a character in a Spielberg film to suddenly turn toward the camera and shout, "This picture's grossed $100 million, y'all! Shout out to DreamWorks!" Rap's unabashed materialism distinguishes it sharply from some of the dominant musical genres of the past century. For example, nobody expects bluesmen to be moneymakers--that's why they're singing the blues. It's not called the greens, after all. As for alternative rockers, they have the same relationship...
...getting a new push toward activism from an unlikely source--Beastie Boys. The white rap trio began as a Dionysian semiparody of hip-hop, rapping about parties, girls and beer. Today they are the founders and headliners of the Tibetan Freedom Concert, an annual concert that raises money for and awareness about human-rights issues in Tibet. Last week Beastie Boys, along with the hip-hop-charged hard-rock band Rage Against the Machine and the progressive rap duo Black Star, staged a controversial concert in New Jersey to raise money for the legal fees of Mumia Abu-Jamal...