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...very distinct personalities, just as John was the intellectual, Paul was the suave, good-looking one, George was the mystical one, Ringo was the whimsical one, just as the Beatles had these distinct personalities as human beings, they do as artists. John was an illustrator, Paul is an abstract expressionist, Ringo is a pop artist, and George had the good sense to know he wasn’t an artist,” he said, laughing...
...looking for a sexual ethic that can be seriously informed by our Bible, there is a good deal to steer us away from assuming that reproductive sex is a norm." He continued: "The absolute condemnation of same-sex relations of intimacy must rely either on an abstract fundamentalist deployment of a number of very ambiguous texts, or on a problematic and nonscriptural theory." As Archbishop of Wales he admitted knowingly ordaining at least one noncelibate gay man. When he moved with his wife and two children to Lambeth Palace in 2002, the Herald newspaper of Glasgow enthused, "What will endear...
...ordained in 200 years and a self-professed "hairy lefty," who was once arrested during a protest at a U.S. air base in Britain. In 1989 he delivered a lecture in which he stated, "The absolute condemnation of same-sex relations of intimacy must rely either on an abstract fundamentalist deployment of a number of very ambiguous texts or on a problematic and nonscriptural theory." As a bishop, he knowingly ordained at least one noncelibate...
...bridges the gap between classics and linguistics at Harvard with a joint appointment in both departments. He breaks his academic interests into three areas, although he says it’s “hard to explain” his abstract field of study...
...comes with Apple's DRM software, FairPlay, baked in, and FairPlay has its own ideas about what is and isn't fair. Most people don't even notice DRM--who puts their music on five different computers anyway?--but there's something annoyingly unfair about FairPlay even in the abstract. You paid for the music. Who is Apple to tell you where you can and can't stick...