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...became an upstanding member of the congregation, delighting many of the adults with his choirboy gentility. "Yes, sir" was the way he addressed the men, and he was wont to say "Ma'am" when he held out a chair for a lady. He'd been raised right, most folks thought. Only two weeks ago, says Perry, Mitchell Johnson joined up with another youth group to sing and minister at a nursing home...
...time I was personally wont to forgive Mandela for such impropriety for a different reason. I rationalized that this was a man who had just spent the better part of three decades behind bars, often in solitary confinement. Who could blame him if his world view was slightly out-of-sync with reality? According to this view it was understandable, even "to be expected," that Mandela would not be up to speed with the political norms and diplomatic niceties of the day. Both hypotheses were soon to be tested by the unfolding policies of the Mandelan presidency...
...reason Duran Duran fails to tap into today's music market, and the reason that Medazzaland wont be creeping into the top-10 anytime soon, is that their music isn't really about anything. It does not speak about problems facing today's youth or give voice to female angst. It is purely about fun. If you recall, Duran Duran was always about fun--"Girls on Film" anyone? In a world fueled by skepticism and the desire to attach both cultural and critical meaning to anything and everything, it is too easy to ask what in god's name Medazzaland...
...hard-pressed to have the willpower to sit down in a quiet room to write or read, knowing full well that the quiet is a fragile illusion wont to be broken by any family member steamrolling through, wanting the use of a television or a telephone and creating a ridiculous amount of noise in the process. The effort becomes moot, the book rendered unreadable by the voices demanding dinner, someone to set the table, my undivided attention...
...tabloids, as is their wont, not only detail the crime but also posit the charges that will be brought in the Dec. 26 murder of the six-year-old Boulder, Colo., beauty queen. All a frustrated public has to go on are those tales and the reiterations of District Attorney Alex Hunter, who told TIME last week, "I smell an arrest. The investigation is on track." Three weeks ago, investigators visited Patsy's sister Pam Paugh in Atlanta. She told TIME, "They felt they had done enough outside investigation to sit down and corroborate what they'd found out with...