by Cliff Vaughn | Jun 21, 2002 | Opinion
“The day you turn 16, your whole life changes.” So says an Amish teenager reflecting on rumspringa, a period lasting anywhere from ages 16-21 in which Amish youngsters are free to sample “English” culture—that is, non-Amish living. They smoke,...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jun 21, 2002 | News
“Heaven and hell for Amish people are as real as New York and Chicago,” said Lucy Walker, the director of a new documentary that airs tomorrow morning on Cinemax. “Devil’s Playground” chronicles rumspringa for Amish teenagers—a period...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jun 6, 2002 | Opinion
Fifty-eight years ago today, Allied Expeditionary Forces invaded France’s Normandy beaches to begin liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. June 6, 1944—D-Day—witnessed the largest air, land and sea military operation in world history. It included over 5,000 ships,...
by Cliff Vaughn | May 30, 2002 | Opinion
“What’s a South African doing in the Ukraine with three Russian scientists and a crate from Israel?” It’s not a joke. It’s the central question in “The Sum of All Fears,” the new movie based on Tom Clancy’s...
by Cliff Vaughn | May 2, 2002 | Opinion
We’re marketing violence to children, even though violence isn’t child’s play, according to lionlamb.org, the Web site of the Lion & Lamb Project. “The Lion & Lamb Project is concerned with violent messages stemming from: television,...
