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Update: Join the club

Cover Story | Johnny Hart, the soul and heart of the cartoon strips B.C. and the Wizard of Id, is happy that Mallard Fillmore is on the job as a reporter. That way, Mr. Hart is not the only member of the Conservative Cartoonists Who Have Been Censored Club. "I love Mallard. Bruce [Tinsley] is sensational," Mr. Hart told WORLD. "His perception of these things is unbelievable." The veteran cartoonist knows plenty about censorship. For years, the Los Angeles Times held to an annual rite of yanking Mr.

I'll never duck a controversy

Cover Story | He walks and talks and quacks like a conservative, but he's much more than that. Meet Mallard Fillmore creator Bruce Tinsley, a cartoonist as politically incorrect in real life as his main character is in fiction. Hatched in controversy, Mallard now flies in more than 400 newspapers around the country, but Mallard's creator credits not controversy but God's grace for his success.

In this issue: "The Man Behind the Duck," July 26, 1997

Features

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Books: Not for the beachbag

International |  But these stories of persecution make good summer reading

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Lions vs. Pastor Lamb

International |  Communist persecution and the growth of Christ's church

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"I really, really do"

National |  Louisiana law makes marriage and divorce more difficult

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Skating to victory

National |  After surprise win, pastor-politician wants to prove himself

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The welfare hydra

National |  The architect of last year's reform has new battles to fight

Dispatches

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Quotables

The only way William Weld is going to Mexico is as a tourist. Legislative aide to Sen. Jesse Helms, who is opposing the liberal Republican's appointment to be…

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This Week

Made for television Telegenic Sen. Fred Thompson, an actor who returned to his native Tennessee from Hollywood and was elected as a Republican in 1994, is…

Reviews

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John Woo: Training up a director

Culture |  How many times have churches, Sunday School classes, and families selected an overseas child to sponsor with monetary and educational support and then seen…

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Film: Lost in the cosmos

Movies |  Summer hits capture our alien nation's fixation on aliens

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Culture Notes

Culture |  Tonga's cyber-admonitions The proliferation of the World Wide Web has meant that many of the good names for websites have already been taken. In the United…

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Books: Patriotism for children

Books |  By the real author of nearly everything you read as a ki

Voices

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Philosophical doubleheader

First, the battle for the Bible; now, the battle for biblical journalism

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Mailbag

A high calling Thank you for your comments on the role of chaplains and the battles we face ("Lead us not into temptation," May31/June 7). I am an Army…

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Starting over

Why do we deprive our children of the sweetest riches? If ideas have consequences, and they do, here's one of the most painful: Ideas can be expensive.

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The Genesis of the problem

The church can debate the question of creation without creating new divisions

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