Word: christiane
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...togs at Bergdorf Goodman's "Prêt-A-Portea." Cakes and pastries designed to look like couture pieces from the Spring 2009 collections - there's a petit four resembling a Chanel purse, a mousse made to look like a Michael Kors dress and other treats inspired by Christian Louboutin, Oscar de la Renta and Thakoon - are served daily with tea from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The cost is $45 per person, $60 with a glass of champagne. 754 Fifth Avenue, at 57th Street...
...Many expected this pope to focus on the universal Church and lofty theological treatise. But Benedict has not hesitated to step into the Italian political debate, most notably helping to bury a 2005 referendum on assisted fertility rights. The pontiff is keen to find seeds of Christian vitality in an increasingly secular Europe. And while most Italians are all but secular in their day-to-day lives, the Catholic Church and the pope's pulpit remain powerful forces in Italy's domestic politics. Upon word of Englaro's death, the Vatican's chief of health-related issues, Cardinal Javier Lozano...
...anyway, say the London atheists, it's actually the Christian adverts that may be offensive to some. While the Humanist Association defends the right of Christians to air their views, many of its members object to the Christians' choice of words. Richard Dawkins, the eminent Oxford biologist and author of the best-selling book The God Delusion, takes issue with a slogan that calls nonbelievers fools. "That's a particularly obnoxious quote from one of the Psalms," he says. "Ours was extremely gentle and respectful by comparison." The use of the word probably in the atheist slogan, he says, does...
...British advertising authority responsible for screening ads, received more than 150 complaints about the atheist campaign in January, and at least one bus driver walked off the job. "This is a public attack on people's faiths," said Ron Heather, a 62-year-old bus driver and Evangelical Christian. "I have a lot of passengers who are over 90 or are seriously ill, and to tell them there is no God seems a bit insensitive when God is probably all they have left in the world." Dawkins believes that's neither here nor there. "It's not the business...
...Although the atheist posters were taken down when the campaign ended on Feb. 1, this modern-day Crusade being waged on London's transport system isn't over yet. The atheist bus organizers say they are regrouping and will launch another campaign in April, knowing that Christian groups are likely to respond in turn. "I don't object at all to the Christian ads that are going up, especially if they make people think," Dawkins says. "If more people think for themselves, we'll have fewer religious people...