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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Vatican's champions say it had no choice: "the church as such" is ecclesiastical shorthand for the church as bride of Christ, which partakes of divinity and must thus be without blemish. Carroll, however, finds the apology's language "evasive and...immoral." Anti-Judaism, he writes, has been at the very center of Catholic theology at least since the Gospel of John, and the church has allowed, encouraged and--in the case of the Inquisition--chartered the foulest of abuses. "We Remember" further contended that the Holocaust was the product not of Christianity but of a "neo-pagan" regime that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Church as Sinner | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...always on your record if you're 17 or above," he says. "You'll always be in our system. Your fingerprints and photograph are still on file. You're always going to have to explain that blemish--it is always on record. And if the FBI has to decide between two candidates, they might take the one that doesn't have that...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Puritan Beantown: Hub Cracks Down on Alcohol | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

...sight by avoiding certain camera angles, but last week there was no hiding the giant boil on George W. Bush's face. His bulging Band-Aid drew a lot of attention, so we asked a few cosmetic experts for better ways of dealing with such a large blemish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 60-Second Symposium | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

Junior Jaclyn Kryzak put the only blemish on the Crimson's ledger, scoring at 14:37 of the first period...

Author: By Nicolas O. Jimenez, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Dartmouth Continues Mastery Over Harvard | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

Although four Ivy League teams qualified for the NCAA tournament last season, the only way to guarantee a spot in the Big Dance is to win the Ivy League championship. After an early blemish to upstart Brown, Harvard has regained the form it displayed in its 1999 championship campaign...

Author: By Jared R. Small, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard, Princeton Share Ivy Lead | 10/25/2000 | See Source »

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