Word: litmus
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...hospital after running the Boston Marathon last April; or even that I can spell the Red Sox’s Doug Mientkiewicz’s last name off the top of my head (see, I just did it)? Because if city of origin is the true litmus test of fan-dom, then I have to call myself out.Though I graduated from high school in Boston—well, Brookline, but close enough—I actually grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. before moving to Boston after my freshman year of high school. Back then, I wasn?...
...importance of this second release, the litmus test for staying power in the record industry, has no doubt weighed heavily on the band members, whose debut inspired such acute hyperventilation among indie rags. Fortunately, neither the watchful eyes of hipster nation nor the inflated anticipation for their follow-up have knocked Interpol off course. Unintimidated, the band appears to reassert its artistic and commercial ambitions bluntly in the album’s very first line: “We ain’t going to the town/We’re going to the city.” Antics finds...
...week he would be willing to testify if called, though he told TIME he thought the request "verges on the ridiculous" since he sees the commission's remit as probing the terrorist attack, not the election. Chirac and Schröder don't see involvement in Iraq as a litmus test for antiterrorist resolve. But both their governments reacted with notable reserve when Zapatero called the U.S. occupation "a disaster" and "a huge mistake," then yanked his troops, just as France and Germany were seeking to lower the temperature of the transatlantic dispute. The German opposition, which is now polling...
...than they were Democratic careerism. But in Rome some moderate theologians are less fervent on abortion's primacy than are their colleagues in the U.S. "The only black and white in all of this is that abortion is wrong," says a Roman canon-law expert. "The idea of the litmus test is not part of Catholic teaching. It is part of American political culture." Nevertheless, the same scholar senses "an emerging impatience" among church leaders around the globe at U.S. Catholic politicians who cast their pro-choice votes without even the appearance of pain. "You can tell when a politician...
...body and blood of Jesus? The church understands this and has long left it up to the individual to wrestle with his or her conscience as to whether going to Communion is appropriate. To turn the tables and make the giving of Communion contingent on a public, political litmus test would politicize a sacred ritual that is and always should be beyond politics...