Word: finely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lost. Last week--457 years, several disastrous religious wars and dozens of denominational splits later--Edward Cardinal Cassidy announced Vatican approval, with some caveats, of a Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, toward which Catholic and Lutheran theologians have been toiling since 1967. Some of the Vatican's fine print was shockingly critical of the text, but it let stand without objection the Declaration's grandest statement: "Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit...
...while finding a good device is relatively painless, getting cellular service, I quickly learned, is about as easy as picking a cardiologist: be ready for lots of critical choices, often involving leaps of faith and a disturbing amount of fine print. (Did you know that "free weekends and nights" often means after you use up your monthly allotment of prime-time minutes...
There is a fine line between sports and stupidity. The X-Games are designed to erase that line, not by showing athletes doing what you can't do, but what you're not willing to do. And while the objective of these sports is not always clear (What does make the best stunt biker?), the appeal is unmistakable: these people are wacked. You don't have to know the intricacies of sky surfing to appreciate people free-falling from a plane with a skateboard strapped to their feet. It translates just fine...
JERRY SHERLOCK, director, New York Film Academy: "Pret-a-Porter [1994; 4], because they put Marcello Mastroianni, a fine actor, in that piece...
...unwanted books and pictures to make room for new additions. Why not donate them to libraries and museums? His answer ("I realized it was stupid to inflict on other eyes a work I had come to consider unworthy of mine") suggests both a refreshing approach to criticism and a fine madness...