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...priest means no sacraments are performed, which means the heft of the service is eliminated. Fewer priests mean fewer masses. So what?s a spiritually hungry Catholic...
...sections first. We clamored over Metro, debated national and international news, spent Sunday mornings lingering over comics and Book World. As I grew older and began writing myself, I made it a ritual to read every word, every day. When I went to college, I found myself missing the heft and wit of this capital newspaper. By that time, like any soul who lived and breathed within the Beltway (and an extraordinary number from without), I knew damn well who Katharine Graham was, and what she stood...
...cost of $250 million come from Bonus, based in Brande, Denmark. Danish firms are supplying 60% of the wind turbines being installed in the fast-growing U.S. market, which this year alone will nearly double the total installed base of wind power. The only American wind firm with the heft to compete with the large European companies is an arm of the energy giant Enron, based in Houston...
...stone and the feather," that being his notion of how weight and weightlessness are best understood in the presence of each other. You understand them better yourself at the Chapel of St. Ignatius, where thin sheets of zinc roofing meet rough concrete walls along knife-edged junctures. The heft of the concrete accentuates the fine metal, which reciprocates by pointing up the raw mass of the heavier material...
...Angelina Jolie film Tomb Raider. Linguist-hero accompanies suspicious expedition to legendary hidden shrine; hero kills rogue male villain, vindicates visionary dead male ancestor. (Can't an action hero ever have a mother fixation?) Atlantis adroitly mixes 2-D and 3-D animation but is short on emotional heft and depth. It would be Disney's rotten luck this summer if its big-budget cartoon loses the tween market to an inferior live-action film with a boy-pleasing secret ingredient. Tomb Raider is Atlantis...