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...Cuomo is a devout Catholic, why does he not use his office to urge support of the church's drive to end all abortions? The Governor argued that he does not believe that, even if enacted, an abortion ban could be enforced or would achieve the goals that the church seeks. "It would be Prohibition revisited." As for stopping Medicaid funding of abortions, Cuomo claimed that poor women would merely find other ways to obtain abortions, while "the rich and middle classes" would be unaffected. "The hard truth is that abortion is not a failure of government. No agency...
...power. Since he inherited the throne at age 31 from his father Mohammed V in 1961, Hassan has worked hard to make himself and his kingdom Western, Arabic and African all at once. He can play by turns the extravagant cosmopolite who rides horses with President Reagan, and the devout Muslim who is officially known as Commander of the Faithful...
Young Conrad, the hero of the novel, grows up in a Belgian village in a home overrun with luxuriant potted plants. The hothouse upbringing keeps him devout, unworldly and suppliant. At a Catholic school he yearns to become a saint. Tormented by sexual feelings, he admits to his spiritual adviser that "two flies had landed on the page of one of my treatises and were fornicating and I didn't stop them." Conrad makes up for his lustful thoughts by committing holy books to memory and praying for the conversion of atheists. His confessions become so monotonously pure minded...
Creator Mintz, 53, is not surprised. A former caterer and a devout Orthodox Jew, Mintz suspected eight years ago that tofu could be the milk substitute he needed to make an ice-cream-like dessert that would not violate religious prohibitions against the mixing of meat and dairy products at the same meal. "It didn't come out right at the outset," he admits...
...Paris. "It's the ultimate con job." This seems an odd assertion from a character whose narrative is one long profession of emotional candor, sensitivity, creativity and individuality. William Wharton's novel is no con job, however, but something perhaps harder to take: a credo of total, devout and sometimes excruciating sincerity...