Word: collared
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...Paul's first letter to the disciple Timothy (which can be read to suggest that clerics should have children, a tricky point for celibate Catholics) and by a query from Steve Largent, a leader of the House's religious right, as to whether O'Brien thought his clerical collar would intimidate Representatives seeking his counsel. This was especially odd given that James Ford, the current, much beloved chaplain and a Lutheran, wears a collar...
Oooh-la-la! Europeans, particularly the French, are getting hot around the collar over a report claiming that information gathered by a U.S.-led spying network is being used to give industrial secrets to American corporations. They're probably wasting their sweat. The report, presented to the European Parliament Wednesday, set off a frenzy by fueling the deepest European fears about American manipulation of global trade. But U.S. and E.U. officials are now questioning whether the Parliament acted irresponsibly in accepting the report, which was compiled by a Scottish freelance journalist who based his research primarily on prior newspaper accounts...
...Michigan, McCain stressed his plan to devote a majority of the projected federal budget surplus to shoring up the Social Security trust fund. This played well among the state's blue-collar workers, exit polls showed...
That shouldn't surprise anyone who's been paying attention over the past three decades. In the early 1970s, women streamed into the seminaries at the same time they were marching into other white-collar professions. Many, notably the Episcopalians, did so literally on faith, since their denominations barred female ministers. Today half the Christian branches, plus Reform and Conservative Judaism, ordain women. (Islam does not allow female immams.) The United Methodists count 7,039 female ministers (out of 44,536 total). In 1999 the small Unitarian Universalist Association recorded a landmark: a ministry that is more than 50% female...
...this group, known as the "Keating Five" made a cameo in S&L--the savings and loan scandal. Yes, only about 10 years ago John McCain was brought before the Senate Disciplinary Committee for his role in the "Keating Five" scandal. McCain accepted about $112,000 from convicted white-collar felon Charles Keating in exchange for assisting in a lobbying effort with federal prosecutors...