Word: creed
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...steppes, a totalitarian state has mobilized all its technological wizardry (including, it is hinted, steroids) in order to claim not merely a world championship but the superiority of its system over that of the decadent West. Apolitical Rocky does not care. But his friend and sometime opponent Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) does, and in an exhibition match (staged--plug, plug--at MGM's Las Vegas Grand), he is sadistically beaten to death by the Soviet. That, of course, gets the Italian Stallion up on his hind legs, pawing...
...combination of success and unpopularity. Even before Iraq, the Prime Minister was seen as a cool, distant, slightly dodgy figure. That was due in part to Blair's personality-he is awkward at empathy, his nervous smile six teeth too many-but it is also a consequence of his creed. Blair, like Clinton, is an exemplar of the Third Way, which is not exactly a fighting faith. It is an attempt to take governance seriously, to provide needed services efficiently while removing the crushing indifference and incompetence of industrial-age bureaucracy...
Though he insisted that “government has no business endorsing a religious creed, or directly funding religious worship or religious teaching,” at the White House Conference last week, President Bush also maintained that “when government gives that support, charities and faith-based programs should not be forced to change their character or compromise their mission.” He seems to be suggesting that government funding of faith-based programs does not cross First Amendment lines. But Bush ignores the fact that many faith-based initiatives have close ties to the religions...
Perhaps, in an ideal world, Bush would be right. Unfortunately, in practice, faith-based programs impart an implicit bias in their messages, methods, and interaction with those they help. They cannot help it. After all, most of these groups hire employees only of their own creed (a practice which Bush supports...
...artist, to name a few—and though Dropout didn’t win album of the year, it did win as rap album. What song was best rap song? That’s right, “Jesus Walks,” Kanye’s creed about mingling his open faith and his rap career, beating out favorite “99 Problems” by Jay-Z. Kanye’s soft and faithful rap seems to me the only kind of innovation that the Academy seems to favor...