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...Johnson murders because they faced the same day-to-day fear and humiliation. When there are a thousand ways to lash out against the systematized caprice of a workplace like that, moral absolutes like "you don't shoot your boss" are turned to mush. There's a special bond between James Johnson and the countless other Rachel Scott describes as people and cites as numbers in her extended piece of journalism about industrial accidents and diseases. A special bond that calls for special terms, like James Johnson's terms, and the terms Racial Scott uses in the best parts...
...what was happening in America was a systematic campaign to destroy a band of like-minded people who shared the same history, endured the same conditions and were trying to win their freedom. Genocide. Or whatever you want to call it, because for the Panthers, who had the special bond, the words were only meaningless symbols, symbols that belonged to the enemy. For a group representing a people without a voice in society, a group standing outside of society, using their words only gets yourself lost. Because they can use the words any way they want...
...proposal is a radical one in a church that flatly forbids remarriage to anyone who has previously had a valid Christian marriage. Roman Catholicism still teaches that once consummated, a marriage between two baptized Christians is a sacrament: it creates an indissoluble bond breakable only by death. The church has taught that Jesus' dictum "What God has joined together, let not man put asunder" means that men not only should not, but cannot break that sacramental bond. In recent years, however, Catholic theologians, psychologists and scripture scholars have begun to question whether Jesus meant that marriage is in fact...
...city," says Kyung-Wha. "Instead, I must be content to explore a new audience." Their personalities are similar only in a courteous sense of selfimportance. Myung-Whun is intense, Kyung-Wha fiery, and Myung-Wha pacific. When family frictions do arise, the Chungs may find their strongest bond in their individual ability to make shafts of sound seem more vivid than anything else in life...
...Beer, Al Capone's old brewery, and depicts the New York skyline against a metallic orange sky. Other esoterica range from the cone-topped Kopper Kettle (vintage 1936-40) to a sexy, green-eyed Playmate can that was withdrawn after Hugh Hefner threatened legal action and the james Bond 007 Special Blend that was marketed for only six months by Baltimore's National Brewing...