Word: confessional
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That Darke's boss is an unnamed and perhaps female Prime Minister of Britain is not cause for broad winks. Many of the plot turns in the novel may seem improbable and even fanciful, but the feelings expressed by the characters and their sense of time (running up, running down...
What is there to be heard is a state-of-the-art dance record. Jackson's lyrics combine sometimes glancing felicity ("Your talk is cheap/ You're not a man/ You're throwin' stones/ To hide your hands") with scat-style facility. There is a great singer at work here...
Too much can be made of this dissent from official church teaching. Indeed, the Pope can and will find many signs of exceptional vitality in American Catholicism. Attendance at worship services is notably higher in the U.S. than in most other Western countries: 54% in the TIME poll report that...
Shortly after his abduction, Glass reported, he asked his captors for water. One of them replied, "Why water? You death. You no need water." Another taunted him, "You CIA." Later, telling him at gunpoint that if he did not cooperate he would never see his family again, they forced him...
That confession of faith, the shahada, is professed by all Muslims, be they the 700 million Sunnis who dominate the Islamic world from Morocco to Indonesia or the 90 million Shi'ites who rule Iran and form majorities in Lebanon, Bahrain and Iraq. To the shahada, however, the Shi'ites...