Word: communion
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...with the secret ballot and the direct election of Senators. In the 1960s smoke-filled rooms gave way to primary beauty pageants, and after Watergate, big-money contributors had to form PACs instead of flushing money directly to their candidates. The avowed goal is always the same: to ensure communion between the voters and their leaders...
ALEXI II --Patriarch of Russia --Headquarters in Moscow --Position: Soon after Bartholomew's decision, Alexi, who was raised in Estonia, "suspended communion" between the Russian church and that of Constantinople, declaring, "Christ's seamless robe is again being torn apart." --Allies: At least 100 million strong, his church has about half the Eastern Orthodox members in the world, and may draw in Greece and Serbia. And if Russian nationalists come to power after elections in June, the church's religious claim on Estonia may become part of a thrust to recover territory belonging to the old Soviet Union.Maybe...
...Johnson knows whence his design concept flowed. "It had to be an idea from God," he says. To God the Creator, then, add God the Packager: Johnson has brought out Celebration Cup, the world's first prefab Communion...
...plastic purple container that might normally hold a shot of creamer, filled instead with the grape juice most American Protestants use to celebrate the Lord's Supper. The Communion wafer nestles between layers of a pull-tab lid. The item, assures Johnson, is "liturgically correct." The cups cost 10¢ each. "No waste, no hassle," says Johnson. And no germs. The cup's press kit notes that it may help prevent the spread of meningitis, although Johnson says, "We are careful not to sell fear. That's not what this cup is about...
...publishers last October, sparked a frenzy of interest. Three different Hollywood producers agreed to pay $3 million for it. Evans eventually sold the book to Robert Redford after a soulful phone conversation. "He told me a story about riding in the mountains and seeing an antelope, a kind of communion they shared," Evans recalls. "He knew the book inside out and the--for want of a better word--spiritual things I was trying to get into...