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...response, lay Catholics today participate in parish life in numbers--and exert an influence--unimaginable a few generations ago. For the church, that is good news and bad--the bad news being that the muscle tone of the institution suffers when numbers of American individualists feel free to do it themselves, as they have long since done in regard to contraception. The American form may become a sort of Shinto Catholicism--a mild form of Sunday theater...
...tens of thousands of dollars for studio time plus distribution costs. But now amateurs can produce CDs with their home PCs and cheap recording and mixing gear--there's even a free version of the industry-standard music-editing software called Pro Tools available online. Geonetta plans to lay down tracks for a solo acoustic album in his home studio and burn 1,000 CDs through a copying service. He'll sell the album at his shows, on Amazon.com and Bestbuy.com (for a small shelving fee) and on independent artists' websites like CDBaby. The entire enterprise will cost about...
These survey results are ugly. They express the chasm between people and organizations. But the corporate response has been typical of institutions in crisis—they tend to produce the same old behaviors, only with more ferocity. Companies cut costs and lay people off and make consumers...
...followers worldwide to make their way to Iraq to wage jihad against the invaders. For bin Laden's followers, the growing insurgency in Iraq is more than simply a golden opportunity to spill their enemy's blood on a battlefield more accessible than most; it's an opportunity to lay the foundation for the next generation of al-Qaeda in the way that the Afghan jihad against the Soviets had brought together the "known leadership" of al-Qaeda and forged their organization. They want to repeat the experience in Iraq, encouraging young Islamists from all over the world to make...
Dubbed the Clown Prince of track and field, U.S. sprinter JON DRUMMOND threw a world-class tantrum in Paris last Sunday. He lay in his lane, refusing to budge, after he was disqualified from the 100-meter world-championship quarter-finals for a false start. Some hope officials will revisit their reliance on gate sensors. "If you so much as pass gas, you get a false start," says runner Kim Collins...