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...with constitutional force, Anderson predicts some gays and lesbians will leave the church, since the amendment states that you should not hold office if "refusing to repent of any self-acknowledged practice which the confessions call sin." He also says the church will find itself in a hypocritical bind if it chooses to enforce "chastity" and not the 17th century bans on divorce and working on the Sabbath. Anderson, however, is not abandoning his church: "I'm in this for the long haul," even if takes "another 20 or 30 years" to defeat the other side...
Penn was in a bind. It was running at a deficit, but to avoid losing its place in the Ivies, it had to spend heavily to recruit and keep the best faculty and meet the growing demand by students for more course choices, more diversity, more access to professors and--one of the most salient trends of the post-'60s student body--more amenities, including comfy dorms, indoor tennis courts and pools. Meyerson had been acting chancellor at Berkeley during the height of student unrest. At Penn, he says, "the worst sit-in I experienced was when we tried...
With disjointed guidelines among the various organizations, producers like Snow end up in a bind...
...kitsch forms for 70 years), is suffused with Massacres of the Innocents, scenes of the roasting, flaying and disemboweling of idealized martyrs, sinners in hellfire and visions of a countervailing Paradise. Rummaging back through his fantasies for redemption of his own wretchedly maimed childhood, Darger was able to bind up his wounds with his religious fixations. This, in the end, is what gave his art a power that did not exist in his life...
These stories of our lives do shape us and they do make the bonds that we may share with people of similar backgrounds that much stronger. But these cannot be the only ties that bind...