Word: glasgowe
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...abstract fundamentalist deployment of a number of very ambiguous texts, or on a problematic and nonscriptural theory." As Archbishop of Wales he admitted knowingly ordaining at least one noncelibate gay man. When he moved with his wife and two children to Lambeth Palace in 2002, the Herald newspaper of Glasgow enthused, "What will endear him to the people ... is that he has the courage of his convictions, however unpopular they...
...When off duty, says Fitzpatrick, "I don't tell people I work for the police. I tell them I'm in court services." Simpson, like many other officers, declines to say whether he's Catholic or Protestant. But in Belfast, even one's soccer team can reveal identity: most Glasgow Ranger fans are unionist, most Celtic fans nationalist. Simpson avoids this and just says he's a fan of neutral Liverpool...
...tell people I work for the police. I tell them I'm in court services." Simpson, like many officers, declines to say whether his background is Catholic or Protestant. When he talks to boys playing football in the street, they ask which team he roots for. Support for the Glasgow teams Rangers or Celtic is a sectarian marker. Most Rangers fans are unionist, and Celtic fans nationalist. Simpson dodges the coded query by saying he supports Liverpool, a team with no such meaning...
...second and final term as president runs out in 2008. With Russia's oil-fueled economy booming - Putin has paid back much of the nation's foreign debt - he remains highly popular at home. But his legacy will remain controversial. Says Stephen White, professor of international relations at Glasgow University, Scotland: "As soon as the price of oil weakens, Russia's real problems - like corruption, low life expectancy and the economy's dependency on raw materials - will just get worse." Putin himself complains that his foreign critics remain mired in an outdated cold-war mindset, and exhorts Russians to work...
...that certain recent titles, especially the ones on the outer edges of the mainstream, are classics of the future - movies like David Gordon Green's George Washington, Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl and Lodge Kerrigan's Clean, Shaven. Ramsay's 1999 story of a boy's troubled childhood in Glasgow in the 1970s is tender and harrowing at the same time. The disc includes three of her short films, two of which won prizes at the Cannes Film Festival...