Word: kingly
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...days before Casey's address at King's, Rigali issued a statement "applauding" the Senator for introducing legislation to promote policies that encourage women facing unplanned pregnancies to carry their babies to term. In the highly ritualized world of church communication, the Cardinal's announcement was akin to a public smackdown of Martino. One month later, Martino was summoned to Rome, and submitted his resignation...
...situation came to a head this spring, when King's College in Wilkes-Barre invited Casey to speak at its commencement ceremony. Objecting to Casey's vote to confirm former Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius (a Catholic who supports abortion rights) as Secretary for Health and Human Services, Martino said it was "sad and disappointing" that the college chose to honor a Democrat who could not "muster the courage" to oppose "the pro-abortion agenda...
...know some people will see the irony here.' RODNEY KING, whose beating by Los Angeles policemen sparked the city's 1992 riots, on his plan to box a former police officer in a paid bout on Sept...
...conservative politicians and talk-show hosts still bear the brunt of most of Stewart's barbs, Obama has hardly come away unscathed - from Stewart's early lampooning of Obama worship (in one video, the Democratic candidate was presented to the world like the royal cub in The Lion King) to his impatience with the friendly interplay between Obama and audience members at his first health-care town-hall meeting: "Is this a town hall or a Tom Jones concert...
...active duty. The postwar period, as has been noted and honored with such frequency as to become perfunctory and cliché, saw the integration of baseball and with it, the opening of the door to greater integration in society. The deaths of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, Jr. had their baseball echo in Roberto Clemente’s death in 1972, which served as an explosive punctuation mark at the close of the “60s” and ushered in the era of what-do-we-do-now malaise, stagflation, oil shocks and Nixon?...