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...devout Jew, Emanuel was so intent on negotiating the passage of Congress's $700 billion-bailout bill that he got a special waiver from his rabbi to work through Rosh Hashanah...
...China's secularism, and Aiyar searches vainly for traces of spirituality behind China's materialistic façade. A Shaolin abbot who styles himself as a CEO, or a cabbie who, when asked about religion, growls, "I believe only in money," are expressing attitudes incomprehensibly alien to India's devout...
...Nkunda is in his 40s and is married with children. He has been a soldier since 1993. •He studied psychology at the university level and is fluent in English. •He is a self-described devout Pentecostal Christian and sometimes wears a pin that says, "Rebels for Christ." He says he prays every day and claims many of his soldiers have converted to the faith. •He is a native of North Kivu, an eastern Congolese province that shares a border with Rwanda. •He is almost always photographed in a military outfit, wearing sunglases...
...array of essays, interviews, and the transcript of an on-stage discussion between the director and writer at The Ohio State University in 1997. Ebert has also gone back to write an additional "reconsideration" of a half-dozen select Scorsese titles. Even for those who consider themselves devout fans of the Scorsese canon, Scorsese By Ebert helps readers to see the overriding arc that connects his various titles - the themes of guilt, sin, ego and hope that surface time and again...
...repertory of declamations and miracles" - the Byzantine Empire is now seen by historians as a crucial bridge connecting antiquity to the Renaissance, as the keeper of the sacred flame of classical learning through the so-called Dark Ages. It was also a melting pot of influences. Byzantines, who were devout Christians, considered themselves the inheritors of the Roman Empire, despite the fact that they spoke Greek. Their knowledge, exemplified by the advanced engineering and spectacular architecture of their capital on the Bosphorus, made them the envy of the world. But that progress also made them vulnerable...