Word: bells
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...arbitrary rules about how you have to behave, and if you disobey them you go to hell, rather than to heaven. What the New Testament really says is God wants you to be a renewed human being helping him to renew his creation, and his resurrection was the opening bell. And when he returns to fulfil the plan, you won't be going up there to him, he'll be coming down here...
...When young people get involved, they tend to stay involved. The graybeards of today's Democratic Party were once the inspired youth of the New Frontier, or Clean for Gene McCarthy, or bell-bottomed foot soldiers for George McGovern. Scan the crowd at an Obama rally, squint, and you just might see the future. For the moment, it's enough for young Obama supporters to feel that they are part of something big and historic. "I am a believer that change can happen," says Patricia Griffin, 25, a student at St. Louis Community College. "So-called Washington experience has given...
...dressed the King. As Elvis Presley's costumer in the late '60s and '70s, Bill Belew conceived the trademark belts and jumpsuits in which Elvis made his comeback. With names like Burning Love and the Peacock Suit, the ornate, tall-collared, bell-bottomed pieces?made after Elvis asked for a loose stage garment similar to the one he wore for karate?inspired similar ensembles for such acts as the Jackson Five and the Osmonds. Belew...
Others disagree. "I think Google is going to go for it," says Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor and net neutrality expert. "They are the Obama in this race. They don't have the advantages of the Bell culture, but they aren't trapped by it either." Google could benefit by controlling their own wires, which could potentially mean huge profits down the road and direct access to their customers - a safety net against any wireless carrier whims...
...After a key centrist ally yanked support this week from the fragile center-left government, Prodi no longer has a working majority in the Italian Senate. By virtually any reckoning in Italy's complex political arithmetic, this should spell government crisis - and, it would seem, the final bell for the 68-year-old pol, who was resurrected after his last fall from power in Rome by becoming president of the European Commission in 1999. When asked by reporters "How's it going?" just before his address to the Italian Parliament on Tuesday, Prodi declared his faith in his own survival...