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...longer be the prime minister of the United Kingdom, but he is still making important news. Shortly before Christmas, Blair announced to the world that he is converting to the faith of his wife and children and becoming a Roman Catholic. While this may seem to be a personal matter of little relevance to us here in the United States, it is a historical event with many practical implications in Britain and in other countries around the world...
...reference the Commonwealth of Nations, which is described above as an association of 53 independent states, a majority of which used to be British colonies. Finally, while the editorial claimed that "the vast majority of Canadians feels no allegiance to Britain and believes in republican status for Canada," the matter is far more complex and public opinion polls show consistently ambivalent and sometimes conflicting feelings about the Canadians' allegiance to Britain. The Crimson regrets the error...
...think that this is the first evidence of being able to specifically target a cancer stem cell,” Scadden said. “The study shows that targeting them might actually matter...
...recently-founded magazines are now seniors and have had to face the issue, at one point or another, of finding someone just as passionate about their projects as they are. Many magazines thus insist on the immediate immersion of new members. “It’s a matter of raising a profile, but also keeping a constant influx of interested people and making room for new young members,” Cowles says...
Wright: It has, originally, to do with the translation of Jewish ideas into Greek. The New Testament is deeply, deeply Jewish, and the Jews had for some time been intuiting a final, physical resurrection. They believed that the world of space and time and matter is messed up, but remains basically good, and God will eventually sort it out and put it right again. Belief in that goodness is absolutely essential to Christianity, both theologically and morally. But Greek-speaking Christians influenced by Plato saw our cosmos as shabby and misshapen and full of lies, and the idea...