Word: christiane
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...much Sunday trading is banned in France, Louis Vuitton had received an exemption from the Paris prefect by arguing that the store was a cultural landmark, not just a commercial one. But the tribunal upheld a complaint brought by a national federation representing small clothing retailers and a French Christian labor union. The federation took issue with what it sees as unfair competition, while the CFTC union - which doesn't represent any workers at the Louis Vuitton store - insists that Sunday should be a day of rest. "The little luggage store on the Champs Elysées is not above...
...known. The national party chairman is Howard Dean, former presidential candidate and Vermont Governor, who has not exactly muted his unself-conscious liberalism in the job, even while Emanuel and his star pupils are trying hard to hug the middle. Emanuel even bought radio ads on Christian radio stations recently, perhaps partly as a stunt but also to remind Reagan Democrats that they used to be Democrats...
...around wearing little more than a metal brassiere? If Nintendo is serious about wanting to reach the female audience, it should treat us with some respect. We like questing too! Michelle Hedstrom Santa Clara, California, U.S. Faith and Politics Columnist Andrew Sullivan, in his essay "My Problem with Christianism" [May 15], drew a distinction between Christianity and faith-based conservatism and expressed what many of us in the mainline denominations have been thinking and feeling for a while. Although I hate to admit it, there have been occasions when I have been embarrassed to tell others I am a minister...
...asked, ?did you remain silent?? It is of course an unanswerable question, but one that Benedict used to implore Catholics and non-Catholics alike to pray - and work - so that it never happens again. He unpacked the singular aims of Hitler?s Final Solution, and discovered universal religious and Christian theological lessons: ?The rulers of the Third Reich wanted to crush the entire Jewish people, to cancel it from the register of the peoples of the earth,? he said. ?Deep down, those vicious criminals, by wiping out this people, wanted to kill the God who laid down principles to serve...
...humanity and took us to himself, then that God finally had to die and power had to belong to man alone - to those men, who thought that by force they had made themselves masters of the world.? He concluded the point by returning to the specific question of Christianity: ?By destroying Israel, they ultimately wanted to tear up the taproot of the Christian faith and to replace it with a faith of their own invention: faith in the rule of man, the rule of the powerful,? he said. Benedict went on to say that the remains of cruelty on display...