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A short story by Alan Thornhill
01 December 1988
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Using a combination of evangelism and practical business sense, the Perkins are nurturing a 'can do' attitude in eight blocks around their home.
01 December 1988
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You will see a wall filled with light and colour, the pattern resolving into the vast hand of God giving to humanity the gift of himself.
01 December 1988
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In countries that face oppression one can find people possessed of an inner liberty which many of those living in conditions of external freedom have yet to discover.
01 August 1988
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Two days after the wedding they sat and looked at each other in an empty room: `Why have we got married? There is nothing to make a life with.'
01 August 1988
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The Kriegs describe the year that their daughter was addicted as the lowest point of their married life. by Mary Lean
01 August 1988
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How did the inhabitants of Sri Lanka, calling themselves Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims, come to believe that `our people' did not comprise all of the people living on the island?
01 August 1988
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Gandhi has provided a splendid tour de force of aspects of Muslim, mainly political, thinking during a crucial period of the sub-continent's history.
01 August 1988
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In such a setting the shivers of despair which get buried at each report of tragedy can be safely brought to the surface of one's spirit.
01 July 1988
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Taken hostage? How would you cope?The knock on the door, the knife or bullet, the disappearance,the interrogation - it might happen anywhere, from Irelandto Argentina, in London or Paris as well as Beirut.For Jean Waddell it happened in Tehran. Seven years later she talks about her experiences to 'For A Change'.by Mary Lean by Mary Lean
01 July 1988
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Life in such isolation, on a land area less than five miles by one, acquires a certain focus on the essentials, an acceptance of shortage, discomfort and monotony.
01 July 1988
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I was walking with someone I had known for 18 years, but I had never really become his friend. That someone was my father.
01 June 1988
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As he nears the end of almost 40 years' service to the ILO, Blanchard looks back to a strange `chance' that has influenced his destiny. by Andrew Stallybrass
01 June 1988
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What is relatively new is the person in his or her early twenties with no inherited wealth and sometimes no degree, who can earn a six-figure salary within two or three years of starting work. What has wrought this change?
01 June 1988
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Members of 44 parliaments joined world-renowned scientists. The press noted Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama. But was it in any way memorable?
01 June 1988
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My wife and I come from a background of privilege and Protestantism - and are grateful for our heritage. But we have to face the fact that many react quite differently to that tradition.
01 June 1988
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Garth Lean's biography of Frank Buchman (1878 - 1961) is an extraordinary achievement. One marvels, for one thing, at the breadth of research that has been undertaken and at the wealth of facts and details now neatly marshalled in the book's 45 chapters, narrated in crisp, precise language.
01 May 1988
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I was worried about the bill myself - not that I would not be able to pay it, but that if he kept on talking the job would take so long that it would prove more expensive than I had bargained for.
01 May 1988
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Mulugeta Asseratte spent nine years in jail as a political prisoner - and then met the man who had killed his father.By Michael Smith by Mike Smith
01 May 1988
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I bought a black T-shirt and Levi jeans, grew long hair and made up a new past, which included various wild, totally fictitious adventures.
01 May 1988
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One of the two opening batsmen for the Masters is Conrad Hunte, invited from the USA by the Barbadian government with his American wife, Patricia, and their three daughters, Roberta, 10, Grace, 5, and Veronica, 2. by Barbara Williams
01 May 1988
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MRA is ten years older than I am, and I've known it all my life, man and child, which is my only qualification for this very personal view. by Andrew Stallybrass
01 May 1988
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For 40 years Buchman built up a worldwide network of men and women of different views and backgrounds united by their determination to seek and try to follow God's will. by Mary Lean
01 May 1988
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More than the interplay of politics and national self-interest shaped the post-war world, argues Allan Griffith, for 31 years foreign affairs adviser to Australian Prime Ministers.By Allan Griffith
01 May 1988
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I find myself writing this article surrounded by packing cases in a house devoid of books and looking strangely barren and uninviting. We are moving house, not knowing where our future home is to be.
01 May 1988
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