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...grant machine, and because it seemed like such an obvious destination. It is a place where my fields of study—religion, history and international affairs—present glaringly important and intriguing questions. And yet I would wake up every morning in my small room off of Zion Square gripped by the same desperate question: What on earth am I doing here? Really, what am I going to accomplish...
...LEON SULLIVAN was a towering, 2-m exception. Though he grew up in West Virginia, died in Arizona and is best-known globally for his antiapartheid crusading and ties to Martin Luther King Jr., it was in 1960s Philadelphia that the proud but pragmatic pastor of Zion Baptist Church preached, perfected and first put into action his message that "black power without green power is no power." In North Philly, that meant pooling black parishioners' greenbacks to build grocery stores and job training centers after race riots left shops and hopes in ruins. When he became General Motors' first black...
...Even more troubling, "Mein Kampf" and the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" remain as bestsellers, and denial of the holocaust continues in materials distributed by the Palestinian Authority. Blatant incitement of the population is not uncommon. For instance, Ahmad Abu Halabiya, a member of the Palestinian Authority's appointed Fatwa Council, proclaimed live on Palestinian TV, "Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them." Had an Israeli official uttered such an outrageous provocation against Arabs, the uproar by the U.N. and world...
...campground five or six rhinoceros RVs, behemoths with generators on their roofs that hummed and groaned all night to power the people's TVs and air conditioners. They slept sealed up inside the beasts, and in the morning the rhinos rolled off single file down the blacktop, heading for Zion...
This issue must surely be the collector's item of the century! Thank you. BEN-ZION SURDUT Cape Town...