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...months, black leaders who remember the vicious church burnings by white racists in the '60s have been saying the recent 18-month acceleration in fires at small black churches like Kossuth's represents a re-emergence of something big and evil: as National Urban League president Hugh Price puts it, "The flames of bigotry and intolerance are soaring higher than they have in a generation." Now each new bit of evidence about the arsons in their backyard forced the people of Kossuth to question whether their confidence in local harmony had been misplaced--and to reconsider their own behavior...
...dust. This is Kabul today, and no city has suffered more destruction in the '90s than the capital of Afghanistan. Along with the demise of the cold war, the departure of the Soviets in 1989 ended much of the interest of the U.S. and other outsiders. Shortly afterward, vicious, sustained civil war broke out. In the years since, five different armies have fought in Kabul's streets, battling from house to house, killing 45,000 in one six-month period. Jahannam, says the Koran, is a hellish place of "harrowing torment" where people are kept in "heavy fetters...
...election's vicious mudslinging was just one example of the council blocs backing different candidates, Zingher said...
...Breaking the Waves, is a tale of religious and romantic belief, a kind of Song of Bernadette with a goofy, hand-held camera style and a bit of full-frontal. Yet the heroine's ultimate act of faith is to board a ship to be fatally abused by vicious sailors. She might have been seeking her rendezvous with God on a nightmare version of the PRIVATE ship...
...that he is not yet ready for serious dialogue. By this we mean dialogue suited for a post-Holocaust world, a post-Bosnia world, a post-Rwanda world. A dialogue, that is, which is morally shaped and tapered by full recognition of modern human beings' responsibility for the vicious anti-human deeds done in the past and the name of our societies and nation-states. Jeffrey Vanke offers not a clue that he understands what serious dialogue must be about in our era. --Lee A. Daniels, Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute; Martin Kilson, Professor of Government