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...alarms many intellectuals is how the church was involved in the dismissal of Tiongson as chief censor. He is a respected film critic and media professor. Archbishop Sin harangued Tiongson, a onetime seminarian, for being "ineffectual and lacking backbone" when he refused to ban the film. Tiongson's only conduit to the presidential office was through one of the archbishop's aides. "Morality is the church's business, fine," says Tiongson. "But this was meddling in the state." He resigned last Tuesday and was replaced by Alejandro Roces, 76, a former education secretary, who told TIME that the last decent...
...regime should be lifted will be a point of consensus between mainstream Arab opinion and the U.S. But a crucial test remains to what extent Syria and Jordan will continue to tolerate smuggling, because right now Arab economies are hurting and there's competition to be the main conduit for smuggling to Iraq...
...travel to the Senate for the Republican conference lunch, and he has promised to make regular visits to the House on Wednesdays. Such visits are rare. When Quayle, the last Veep to have regular lunch dates on the Hill, met with Senators, he was not seen as a significant conduit to the White House. Cheney, however, sends all kinds of strong signals. Republican Senators already consider him their 51st member, the one who will be needed to break tie votes. Even more important, they see him as a reliable link to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue...
...repair torn nerves in eight-month-old Rodrigo Cervantes Corona's left shoulder and arm, doctors took 3 ft. of neural tissue from his mother's legs and tracked it from the right side of his body to his left hand. The transplanted nerves will act as a conduit to allow the baby's undamaged right-hand nerves to grow over to his left side. The mother will feel a bit of numbness on each side of her feet for the rest of her life...
...Since that has become the conduit of choice for distributing the directory, and it is easier on the [military] service and cheaper for taxpayers," the Navy has begun to do some of its campus recruiting electronically, in addition to attending job fairs and other recruiting events...