by Robert Parham | Dec 19, 2003 | Opinion
My father died this year. Had he lived until Sunday, he would have been 77. His death came as no surprise. His health had declined rapidly in recent years, after decades of battling multiple sclerosis, a disease which forced him to leave his beloved Nigeria in the...
by Jan Turrentine | Dec 19, 2003 | Opinion
“People do not like to think,” she said. “If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.” Also among her keen insights: “The highest result of education is tolerance.” “The best and most...
by Roger Thomas | Dec 18, 2003 | Opinion
Ron Howard may never make another film as great as “Apollo 13,” a masterpiece of filmmaking and an inspiring story of what can happen when people cooperate and work toward a common goal. His Oscar-winning Best Picture, “A Beautiful Mind” from...
by James L. Evans | Dec 18, 2003 | Opinion
The visual images of Saddam Hussein after his capture contrast sharply with the carefully controlled images we had all seen prior to the war. Before the war, we saw Saddam amble regally among his people, larger than life, the very picture of power and control. Now the...
by Dwight A. Moody | Dec 17, 2003 | Opinion
There is nothing like a choir and there is nothing like Christmas to remind us of this. The season and its series of public occasions offer fresh evidence for the unsurpassed sound of that gathering of voices known as the choir. It is the most wondrous of all musical...
by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 17, 2003 | Opinion
If you thought the battle at Helm’s Deep in “The Two Towers” was spectacular, wait until you see the magnitude of the conflict at Pelennor Fields in “The Return of the King.” Pelennor Fields makes Helm’s Deep look like a thumb war,...
