Word: aridity
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...relationships, find it hard to condemn them. They know from pastoral experience, in ways that the hierarchy doesn't seem to accept, that we are all human, and that the laity's real experience dealing with bad marriages, homosexual orientation or contraception is often as morally valid as the arid proscriptions issued from on high. But they cannot say so publicly. This dissonance is a little like the Soviet Union in the 1980s. The hierarchy pretends to preach these doctrines and the laity pretends to believe them...
...outside Israel - the 25,000 Jews who live in Iran itself. The move is partly a response to Israel radio's broadcasts in Farsi. CHINA Freak Floods At least 205 people died and hundreds are missing in floods that struck northern China. In the worst-affected area, a normally arid region south of the city of Xian, nearly a meter of rain fell in just two days. Torrential rains triggered landslides and caused rivers to overflow their banks. More than 3.6 million hectares of farmland have been inundated in the flooding. NEW ZEALAND Snap Election Prime Minister Helen Clark called...
Though the set never changes, effective use of technical elements and scene placement allows the characters to journey from law office to courtroom to the arid air of “Gitmo.” The downside of such a unit set is that in the fast pace of the show, particularly in the first act, one can occasionally become confused about the action’s location...
...gossip of the week: Raquel E. Arid ’04 wasn’t sure whether she should take Astronomy 1 pass-fail. “It’s an easy fourth class, so I probably won’t do much work, so maybe I should just take it pass-fail. But then again, maybe it’s an easy A. I can’t decide!” she said Tuesday...Somehow study card day always sneaks up on Diana K. Limas ’03. “Wait, they?...
...have least blunted international criticism about the detainees' treatment at Camp X-Ray. "I would rather be in an 8-by-8 cell with a (tropical) breeze than to be locked down at Folsom Prison," Feinstein said after her own close-up look at conditions inside X-Ray, an arid patch beneath Guantanamo's hills where Haitian refugees were once held. Another Democratic Senator, Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, said the U.S.'s treatment of the detainees' was "not only humanitarian but (perhaps) overly...