Word: apartness
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...That would be a good example of when I had to dig deep," says Shanahan, 39. Apart from being publicly profiled as pedophiles, priests have a job that is harder than ever. As always, people expect their priest to deliver inspiration on Sundays and know the name of every parishioner, to show up at the hospital at 4 a.m. and to keep the church financially solvent. And let's not forget he is supposed to be the face of Jesus. But now most Catholics have only one full-time priest, instead of the three or four their parents...
...cradle and their weaving on the loom to run off into the hills for nights of wild drinking and dancing, further enlivened by the women's enthusiastic dismemberment of any living creatures they came upon. At one point the queen mother, in her wine-addled frenzy, rips apart her own son, the king, leaving the audience with one clear lesson: keep the women indoors and those wine-filled amphoras tightly sealed...
KNOW ALL Need a database of all the straw-plaited products on display at Guangzhou's Commodities Fair? Looking for manufacturers of high-low carbon silicon chrome? Believe it or not, there is a website for you. Apart from a full list of exhibitors, it provides visitor statistics on previous fairs and contact details for the event's many organizers...
...Mbeki, Obasanjo and other African leaders will keep the pressure on Mugabe to reform. It will not be easy. With the treason charges against Tsvangirai and two other leading MDC officials, a government of national unity is out of the question. Mugabe and Tsvangirai are personally and politically worlds apart. At least 10 people, mostly MDC supporters, have already died in post-election violence and about 50 white farmers have been forced off their lands, their homes ransacked and looted. Among the opposition there is more despair than defiance. Where there might have been a fleeting hope of reconciliation...
Commercial airline travel usually means one thing: lots of wasted time. For busy executives, that costs money. Apart from lengthy check-in procedures, there's a 30% chance that a scheduled European flight will be delayed at least 15 minutes. And since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, not only are some executives spooked by security concerns, but new airport procedures to allay those fears can add another hour to check-in times...