Word: christian
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...however, none of the five candidates had won more than 50%, and so the two top contenders will face a runoff on Feb. 16. The choice is between men of sharply differing political views. One is Diogo Freitas do Amaral, 44, a law professor, a onetime leader of the Christian Democratic Party and now the standard-bearer of his country's right wing. His opponent is Mario Soares, 61, a three-time Socialist Prime Minister and the champion of the left. The outcome of the election is important not only because the victor will become Portugal's first civilian President...
...also the narrator, and the events that led to her current condition must be pieced together from memories she has been conditioned to forget. The & United States of America is now the Republic of Gilead, a Fundamentalist Christian theocracy that arose after "they shot the president and machine- gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time." The current regime is militantly opposed to the recent past, especially all traces of the moral permissiveness that arose in the U.S. during the waning decades of the 20th century...
Bountiful succeeds primarily as a painstaking character portrayal that is unusually perceptive and occasionally brilliant. Geraldine Page is wonderful as Mother Watts, the doting, doddering old protagonist, a hymn-singing, sentimental Jewish mother who happens to be a Texas Christian. She lives in a cramped Houston apartment with her milquetoast son Ludie (John Heard) and shrill daughter-in-law (Carlin Glynn), leading a weary existence that only aggravates her deteriorating heart condition...
...five players for Princeton include Jeff Stanley, Kean Butcher, Fazal Shiek, Tom Shepard and Christian Griffin. Jernigan should have little difficulty dispensing with top-ranked freshman Stanley, the junior national champion...
Western observers assumed that the explosion was linked to an ongoing struggle between Lebanon's rival Christian factions. Less than a week earlier, 350 died when troops loyal to President Amin Gemayel defeated a militia force headed by Elias Hobeika, who fled to Paris and then to Damascus. The fight stems from Gemayel's rejection of a Syrian-brokered agreement that was supposed to have brought an end to Lebanon's eleven-year-long civil war. The accord was signed by leaders of Lebanon's Druze and Shi'ite Muslim militias and even by Hobeika, but was turned down...