Word: bernard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...before he died. "It confirmed the suffering that I knew about," he says. He has received thousands of letters, all supportive, he says. Public pressure to implement some kind of reform in Humbert's name is strong, but Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin opposes creating a new law. Bernard Kouchner, former French Minister of Health and founder of Doctors Without Borders, has even suggested erecting a statue in honor of Marie Humbert. Perhaps the plaque could quote Vincent: "Do not judge her; what she will have done for me is probably the most beautiful evidence of love in the world...
...lawsuits for control of church assets, including real estate and pension funds. Legal fees alone could impoverish both sides. Liberals also warn that Third World churches risk cutting off the channels of funding from the West. The insurgents are ready to take the risk. "This is simony," says Bernard Malango, the primate of Central Africa. "Let the powerful people keep their money." He and other conservative primates told time that the moral cost of communion with an unrepentant ECUSA was higher. "We have lost our credibility," says Tanzania's Mtetemela. "How can we draw people to the faith of Jesus...
...remove a public holiday from the national calendar to fund programs for the elderly provoked hardly a whimper of protest. But his method of quietly forcing change leaves many longing for a clearer sense of direction. "He manages and manages and manages, but he doesn't inspire!" moans Bernard Kouchner, the flamboyant former Socialist Minister of Health. That complaint doesn't just come from the usual suspects, either. "There's no overarching unity, no clarity, no sense that it's all part of a single effort with a final goal and reason," says Jacques Bille, a communications expert and former...
...Blacks crashing out of the Cup four years ago and no one will play les Bleus this time without memories of that upset flickering in their minds. Open rugby is the only rugby the French know. "Attack is one of the things you can't control," says their coach, Bernard Laporte. "It belongs to the irrational." Defending champions Australia are the only country to have won the Cup twice, are playing at home and have spent millions since the last Cup recruiting star players from the game's close cousin, rugby league, but their supporters are doing no more than...
...Bernard F. Law ’53, then archbishop of Boston, singled out Collins as a seminal figure in his life...