Word: ironical
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...into deeply divisive theological and moral questions and yet always cognizant of our spiritual grounding harking back to this country's origins. The truth is that the previous Pope and the handpicked bishops that rule the dioceses have driven out any plain talkers. That was all done with the iron hand of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger behind the scenes as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He wants a church made up of Ave Maria University zealots - the chosen few who will preserve Catholicism as the Pope envisions it in all its medieval splendor. To think that...
...into deeply divisive theological and moral questions and yet always cognizant of our spiritual grounding harking back to this country's origins. The truth is that the previous Pope and the handpicked bishops that rule the dioceses have driven out any plain talkers. That was all done with the iron hand of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger behind the scenes as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He wants a church made up of Ave Maria University zealots--the chosen few who will preserve Catholicism as the Pope envisions it in all its medieval splendor. To think that...
...Downey prepped for three weeks for his one-hour screen test for Iron Man. "You run [the scene] until your subconscious can cough it up with ease," Downey says. "Then you run it to where, if you were woken up in the middle of the night, you could probably say it backwards. Then you write the whole thing out illegibly and see if you can scream through it as fast as you can, while only having a rough reference of what it is because it's written out like chicken scratch." Oh, and then if you're Downey, you probably...
...studio execs had any lingering doubts after casting Downey in Iron Man, they must have been soothed when comic-book fans greeted him ecstatically at last summer's Comic-Con in San Diego. A conventiongoer, dressed in a medical costume, strode up to a microphone at the Marvel panel and told Downey, "You've always been one of my favorite actors because we kind of share the same difficult past, if you know what I'm saying." To which a deadpan Downey replied, "Are you a war veteran too?" When asked why he dodged the kid's obvious search...
...Still, the two colleagues Roberts drew to his opinion were more than any of the other justices could do. Justice Clarence Thomas held, alone, that the Constitution forbids only those execution methods that are expressly intended to inflict severe pain. For example: "'gibbeting,' or hanging the condemned in an iron cage so that his body would decompose in public view, and 'public dissection'...[and] embowelling alive, beheading, and quartering." Also beyond the pale, he noted, would be burning prisoners alive...