Word: apartness
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...surprised to see your short item concluding that "The world must do more than watch the Zimbabwe crisis" followed by eight pages on U.S. politics? While the rest of the world falls apart, for you the election circus takes precedence. Craig McNiven, Johannesburg...
This all comes as a bit of surprise to the press, which - with ample encouragement from the Church's right - had been framing GAFcon as a decisive step toward schism in the Anglican Communion, the third biggest global religious fellowship. GAFcon seems to be falling apart on several fronts. First came the venue problems: the conference ping-ponged embarrassingly at the last minute from Jerusalem to Jordan and back to Jerusalem...
...during a single day, depending on what a person is experiencing. "If somebody comes in and tells me they rushed in because they were late, and their blood pressure is high, I give them a pass," says Dr. Eric Peterson at Duke University. Individual readings taken a few months apart can also be difficult to interpret, he says. But measurements that patients take at home, several times a week, offer a more accurate picture of where their blood pressure stands...
...thrilling jolt of humanity. We were friends for 30 years. We closed a few bars together in the early years, before his wife Maureen shaped him up; we talked politics incessantly; we shared summer rentals; we watched our kids, especially Luke and Sophie, who were born a few months apart, grow up and go to Jesuit colleges (Tim got a kick out of the fact that Sophie, a Jewsuit, aced New Testament at Fordham); and, a final happiness for Tim, we saw them graduate...
...ability of Hamas to enforce the compliance of the other militias will probably determine the duration of the truce. Says Ruth Lahava, the resident of a kibbutz in the Negev regularly peppered by rockets, "I'm in favor of the cease-fire, but I'm afraid that the others apart from Hamas will start shooting again, and Hamas will say: 'It's not us,' and then Israel will respond. That's the way it's been for the last 15 years...