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...flexibility of simple churches is a huge plus. They can accommodate the demands of a multi-job worker, convene around the bedside of an ailing member and undertake big initiatives with dispatch, as in the case of a group in the Northwest that reportedly yearned to do social outreach but found that every member had heavy credit-card debt. An austerity campaign yielded a balance with which to help the true poor...
...didn’t even dispatch a car,” Pasquarello said...
...year as in 1990, and that number is expected to rise another 20-25% between now and 2012. Once regulations demanding the replacement of all single-hull tankers with safer, double-hulled ships fully bite in 2010, as many as 153 of these 200,000-ton monsters will be dispatched to the ship-knackers' yard. Even pleasure boats can present a threat; among craft posing potential disposal hazards, Greenpeace lists the Pacific Princess, otherwise known as TV's Love Boat. In some countries, however, shipbreaking represents a business opportunity. Five nations - Bangladesh, China, India, Pakistan and Turkey - account...
Privately, Olmert, 60, has acted with dispatch to unite Kadima, the centrist party that Sharon created last year. Shimon Peres, the former Labor Prime Minister whose jump to Kadima had given it credibility, made some tiny noises about taking over but soon accepted the reality of his advanced age (he is 82) and anachronistic left-wing politics and fell into line behind Olmert. The other Kadima heavyweights followed. Minister of Justice Tzipi Livni, 47, a rising star with the highest poll ratings of any politician in Israel, immediately announced her support for Olmert, even though the two had been rivals...
...responds to the Munich massacre by assembling a team of covert operatives, headed by ex-Mossad agent Avner Kauffman (Eric Bana), to locate and kill Black September’s Palestinian backers. Kauffman is given a list of targets, an amply funded Swiss bank account, and free reign to dispatch the terrorists according to his discretion.Kauffman and his team approach their task with a sense of righteous purpose. When the team’s “clean-up specialist” (Ciarán Hinds) remarks, “It is strange to think of one?...