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...encyclical is due for release Oct. 5, but several advance copies were circulating to the press last week.) There were rumors that the document would be couched in terms of papal infallibility, making opposition impermissible. While that has not turned out to be the case, dissent is virtually forbidden. "Opposition to the teaching of the church's pastors cannot be seen as a legitimate expression either of Christian freedom or of the diversity of the Spirit's gifts," writes John Paul. "It is prohibited -- to everyone and in every case -- to violate these precepts. They oblige everyone, regardless...
...must have been damn impressive because the crowd certainly was left speechless. The only new song which seemed to have revived the crowd from a coma was "I Feel You," which sounded very much like "Personal Jesus." I guess one can only write so much about "darkness," "religion" and "forbidden love" before they become repetitive. Perhaps for a couple of albums, those themes can be cutting edge and cool, but by the tenth album, they get more redundant than Maurice Ravel's "Bolero...
...welcomed their suggestions. But Fortney Stark, the irascible California Democrat who chairs the House health subcommittee, complained that he could not seriously study the plan under Mrs. Clinton's ground rules: that legislators could see it only in guarded "reading rooms" in the Capitol, where they would be forbidden to make copies or take notes. By early evening, majority leader Dick Gephardt ordered that they be given copies of the plan. And by 6 p.m., copies of those copies began making their way to news organizations, including Time...
Under those rules, the government need not prove that Abdel Rahman directly ordered his followers to blow up any targets. It may be enough to show, as the indictment charges, that he "provided instruction regarding whether particular acts of terrorism were permissible or forbidden ((under Islamic law, presumably)), served as a mediator of disputes among members of the organization, and undertook to protect the organization from infiltration by law-enforcement authorities...
Most endangered of all is the northern right whale. Nearly 60 years after hunting the species was forbidden by the League of Nations, only 350, at most, swim the waters of the Atlantic. One-third of right-whale deaths recorded since 1970 resulted from collisions with ships or accidental entanglement in fishing nets...