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...stomach the ingratitude after their years of service, say the comments may force them to walk away from a job they excel at. Many others are stepping further back into the closet, deeper into a world of secrecy, shame and isolation--the very dark place where priestly dysfunction can breed. "At once I get very angry about it and also very hurt," says a gay New Jersey priest who was ordained 19 years ago. "It's very much like being rejected by a parent...
Maybe for a while yet. It's tempting to wag a finger at spendthrifts living beyond their means, or at the new breed of middle-class speculators taking out buy-to-let mortgages to become landlords. Yet most British borrowers look quite clear-eyed and rational once you've seen their household balance sheets. With base interest rates at a 38-year low of 4%, many feel they literally can't afford not to borrow...
...might add, how does it compare with the others the U.S. is facing? To many observers, it's a stretch to link any attack on Iraq to the broader war on terrorism. By fostering more anti-American resentment, a long-term neo-colonial presence in Iraq could breed a new generation of suicide bombers ready to wreak havoc...
...Indian, English and all that lies between. The boy who would will himself into becoming Jonathan Bridgeman was born Pran Nath, spoiled heir to a wealthy Hindu clan in WW I-era British India. He is celebrated for his royal paleness?until he is revealed to be the half-breed bastard of a British officer. Teenage Pran is promptly tossed from his house and launched on a journey to the ragged ends of a dying empire in search of a self as formless as a discarded robe...
...soaked collision of English stiffness and Indian sensuality has a Dickensian slant (though with more buggery than one remembers from The Pickwick Papers). After an apocalyptic tiger hunt, Rukhsana takes refuge in Bombay, where by day he learns English and by night rules the red lights as a half-breed hustler called Pretty Bobby...