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While this appears to be a policy of tolerance, it is nothing but a crude attempt to exploit religion and transmute churches into another arm of the state propaganda apparatus. These state churches reek of the government's attempts to mold them into tools to maintain support for their regime. Their names and ideologies drip with the official mix of nationalism and support for the Communist party's authority. The official Catholic church is the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association; the principal theological seminary's mission is to train clergy who are patriotic and support the Communist Party. It is absurd...
...waved an arm in exuberance. "They can't even steal an election from him by voting dead names. Our candidate will come right in with his Lazarus move. He'll have a million at any poll by nightfall. They may come in shaking a lot of dust off them, but they'll be voters...
...nearly four years of evening classes at the School of Hard Knocks. This training academy for Hulk Hogan wannabes is located in a dumpy storefront gym in San Bernardino, about an hour's drive east of Los Angeles. There you can see Jones expertly dropping freshmen classmates with an arm to the throat. Wham! Smack...
...should not be censoring ourselves with recently developed international codes, but holding ourselves to our time-tested habit of keeping religious authority at a distant arm's length. Permitting vouchers to be used at sectarian schools--irrespective of their religious affiliation--is a departure from that habit...
...will be given 1.5 shares in the new entity, while AOL's will get a one-for-one swap. That gives AOL stockholders 55 percent of the new company, which will be headed up by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin, and gives Time Warner equity a shot in the arm. After all, before the merger AOL's market capitalization had been $163.4 billion, nearly double Time Warner's $83.3 billion. Levin acknowledged there had been some tough bargaining on valuation, given, as he delicately put it, "the way the market's behaving right now." And given - as AOL CEO Steve...