Word: flushes
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...Washington to meet the President? Even if he did, it's fairly routine for the networks to ferry their precious anchors around by private jet these days. (And while we're at it, why can't Bush take a carpool to Camp David? This nation isn't exactly flush, and he's not exactly essential any more. Doesn't the Secret Service own an armored Suburban...
...students riffed on transubstantiation, the historical roots of incense and why it's not O.K. to pour Communion wine down the drain ("You're not going to flush Jesus," noted Rhonda VanDyke Colby); other weeks, the conversation runs the gamut from politics to premarital sex. "The first task is deconstructing what people think they know," she says. "A rigorous faith is going to serve them well. A rigid one is going to break when the first strong wind comes along." Several past participants have joined new churches; others say they've come to a deeper understanding of God. In some...
...Came In from the Cold A realist's corrective to the first flush of Bondomania, this intelligent 1965 film of the John le Carré novel saw the Cold War as a bitter stalemate in shades of gray. Richard Burton and Oskar Werner are the rival agents whose complex loyalties run into a Berlin Wall...
...Although he has barely had time to articulate his leadership priorities, Aso appears committed to burnishing Japan's global influence. Over the past decade, the nation's foreign-aid budget has nosedived. In the early 1990s, flush with cash from its long boom, Japan was the world's largest donor. Now, it's fifth. Aso might reverse the trend. In August, Japan's Foreign Ministry requested a 13.6% increase in next year's foreign-aid budget. In October, Aso made headlines when he signed off on a record $4.5 billion loan to India. That commitment followed on the heels...
...Russian oil and gas. But for all of its fabulous riches in the ground, Russia remains a kind of Third World country, an extraction economy whose welfare and clout fluctuate with the price of oil. Today, oil fetches less than one-half of what it did when Russia, flush with cash and cockiness, invaded Georgia. Its stock market has crashed more heavily than any other - by more than...