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...provenance of the recordings, their squelching by Judge Hoeveler opened a second front in the court battle. A number of publishers, including the Time Inc. Magazine Co., TIME's parent organization, and the New York Times Co., filed an amicus brief in support of CNN's petition to be freed from the restraining order. A similar brief was filed by several major television networks. Says Jane Kirtley, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: "News organizations are in the business of exposing governmental misconduct, and that's what CNN has done...
...Baptist Convention, Inc. are kindred groups. The oldest black denominations are the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, founded after the Revolutionary War by free blacks influenced by John Wesley's revival movement. The closely related Christian Methodist Episcopal Church was formed by freed slaves after the Civil War. The seventh institution is the Church of God in Christ, which, like all Pentecostal groups, emphasizes the experience known as "baptism in the Holy Spirit," manifested by speaking in tongues. When other Protestants and Roman Catholic worshipers are added in, black churchgoers total 24 million...
...even the screams of a comrade in distress could not arouse action from the Thayer forces. The Holworthians finally took pity and freed Cooper...
...women have wide-ranging responsibilities. It was not always thus. Traditionally, wives and children blindly obeyed the father as ruler of the roost. But postwar economic growth toppled fathers from that lofty post by imposing longer work hours that kept them from home. At the same time, modern appliances freed women from household drudgery. "Housewives can pursue their interests in a carefree manner, while men have to worry about supporting their wives and children," says Makiko Katagiri, 32, a college-educated housewife who plays volleyball once a week and runs the PTA at her children's nursery school...
...their own way, the bishops tried to meet their problems head on. The loneliness of a priest's life can be transformed into a more positive spiritual "solitude" through stronger emphasis on prayer, Chicago's Joseph Cardinal Bernardin and others argued. Priests should also be freed from their routine duties for renewal and a chance to vent their frustrations, the bishops believe. A requirement for "ongoing education" will be one of the suggestions the synod will send to the Pope...