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Within the Evangelical, or Low Church branch of the Church of England, some biblical literalists oppose women clergy because of the belief that the Scriptures forbid women's holding authority over men. But the most determined opposition has come from the High Church, or Anglo-Catholic wing, which is close to Roman Catholicism in many of its beliefs, traditions and rituals. The focus for this resistance is the outspoken Bishop of London, the Rt. Rev. Graham Leonard, 65. Anglo-Catholics concur with Roman Catholic teaching that creating women priests would violate the intentions of Jesus Christ and would deviate from...
Take, for instance, the person who had the misfortune to father comedian Jerry Seinfeld, veteran of The David Letterman Show and The Tonight Show and the featured performer last week at the just-opened comedy palace in Cambridge Catch A Rising Star, the Boston area branch of a well-known New York club...
...Coast Guard has also demanded its share of the antidrug gear; it has managed to secure two of the four Hawkeyes for use on the East Coast, cutting the Southwest air surveillance. Amid all this tension, Peter Kendig, chief of the Customs Aviation Operations branch in San Diego, protests that "nobody knows who is in charge...
...advice from a nonprofit group like Aspira of America, where their special needs are recognized. Parents of these students "really don't understand how to help their kids pursue their education, let alone help them complete the forms," says Aida Sanchez-Romano, executive director of Aspira's Chicago branch. The organization stands ready to help its former students who call on it during the tough first year of college life...
While U.S. colleges have opened branch campuses all over Europe and Asia, only Temple University, with a branch in Tokyo, has ventured into Japan, she said. "Japan just hasn't been a country that we've thought about in terms of establishing a permanent American presence," King said...