Word: connors
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...which labor accuses her of intransigence. Kroc, as a woman, finds herself even more maligned than other baseball owners in the current players' dispute -- the dugout being one of the last all-masculine bastions, even in San Diego -- and has been seeking to sell the team. As mayor, O'Connor gets most of the flak. Councilman Bob Filner, a fellow Democrat, accuses her of dodging systematic dialogue and instead "bullying people, one issue at a time." Some political regulars charge that she shuns partisan duties to concentrate on her "populist" appeal that one of them describes as "a mile wide...
...Connor, however, sticks to her vision of a "global" San Diego that somehow, with strict limits on new growth, will also preserve its beach-town quality of life. And she sticks up for women leaders as being more approachable than men, more service oriented and more concerned with their communities than with their personal ambitions. "When I took office three years ago, we had a mayor who'd been convicted. We had a councilman and a housing director under investigation. The city had gone through five mayors in four years," she says. "I was elected as a Democrat...
...Gospel text for the day was familiar enough: Matthew 4, depicting the devil's threefold temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. But the Sunday sermon, delivered last week by New York's John Cardinal O'Connor, quickly became a headline grabber. To illustrate the reality of evil and give the biblical theme a contemporary twist, O'Connor recited what he termed "gruesomely realistic" portions of The Exorcist, the 1971 novel (and later film) that drew upon accounts of hundreds of exorcisms. Moreover, after Mass the Cardinal revealed to reporters that priests had been authorized to perform two exorcisms...
That might have been enough for many preachers, but O'Connor wanted to give the devil his full due. He warned in his sermon that "diabolically instigated violence is on the rise" and asserted that heavy-metal rock music can "help trap people, especially teenagers," into dabbling in disgraceful Satanist practices. In particular, the Cardinal denounced rocker Ozzy Osbourne's tune Suicide Solution ("Wine is fine but whiskey's quicker/ Suicide is slow with liquor . . . Suicide is the only way out./ Don't you know what it's really about...
...Connor's attack enraged Osbourne, a flamboyant performer who first won fame singing with a group called Black Sabbath. The singer's onstage artistry has included such excesses as biting the head off a bat. Osbourne, who has fended off a lawsuit claiming his songs prompted a youth to kill himself, fired off a telegram, informing the Cardinal that he had "insulted the intelligence of rock fans all over the world...