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...need. "We are not breaking away," Akinola told TIME. "It is the heretics who will leave the church; we will send them away if they do not repent." Added Archbishop of Tanzania Donald Mtetemela, "If it means cutting off the leg because it is no use, then the Lord will lead us to do that." There was a time when the conservatives might have settled for a less severe amputation. Some had favored the establishment of two parallel-but-hostile Anglican bodies in the U.S. But, emboldened by the prospect of victory, this faction, too, has hardened its stance. Says...
...remind her that he's closer to my age than hers). Luckily, we've been able to skirt such deal breakers as tattooing and body piercing. So far. But my self-image as a relatively cool mom unraveled like a cheap slip last month in the lingerie department of Lord & Taylor, where we were doing some back-to-school shopping. The bottom-line point of contention: underwear...
...foot soldiers in changing "coalitions of the willing." Why maximize nuisance value à la française if you can use your voting stock? Can Bush, Schröder and Chirac change perspective - or will it be back to the future of 19th century power politics? In those days, Lord Palmerston famously proclaimed: "We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies;" only "our interests are eternal and perpetual." In the 21st century it is exactly the other way round: our interests keep changing, but our friends, ornery and spiteful as they may sometimes be, remain the same...
...courtly Lord Hutton, exemplar of the British establishment, formally ended his brisk, floodlit march into its innermost corners last week. He will not have an easy time figuring out why weapons expert David Kelly was moved to kill himself in July. A psychiatrist suggested that Kelly's public exposure - after admitting to his managers that he had talked to BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan - had caused "the severe loss of self-esteem ... from feeling that [his employers] had lost trust in him." But whatever Hutton can deduce about the anguish that Kelly took to his grave, the millions of words...
...Belt origins attest to a refreshingly earnest approach. On their third independently-released album, the lyrical gimmicks are nothing if not inventive—especially when rapping about early-bird buffet beatdowns on “The Old Folk Smashers.” Though neither Grape-a-Don nor Lord Grunge can turn a phrase as deftly as fellow bizarro MC Paul Barman, they can still coax a smile and a nod of the head—Batman, Thai food and Applebee’s are all namechecked in just the first two tracks. Grand Buffet?...