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...example, in order to remarry in the Catholic Church, you must have your first marriage annulled, or wiped away, as if it never happened. That can be personally wrenching, particularly if the first marriage resulted in children. With Rentapriest, you get the same familiar language, the same comforting ritual, minus the formal sanction of the Vatican. For some, the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks, says Haggett. "We?ve been told that for many people it?s more important to be married by someone who has been anointed by God, rather than by a justice of the peace," she says. "This...
Clinton envisions an ex-presidency like Jimmy Carter's, minus the tool belt. This week he will produce the first in a series of benefit concerts for AIDS in Africa with Kenny (Babyface) Edmonds, enough of a hip-hopper for teens to notice but not so much to remind people of Clinton's bad-boy genes. He is also helping earthquake victims in India (one trip and $10 million raised so far) and linking up small businesses in Harlem with the big ones in midtown. Of course he's cashing in like no other President has done before. This week...
...Clinton envisions an ex-presidency like Jimmy Carter's, minus the tool belt. This week he will produce the first in a series of benefit concerts for AIDS in Africa with Kenny (Babyface) Edmonds, enough of a hip-hopper for teens to notice but not so much to remind people of Clinton's bad-boy genes. He is also helping earthquake victims in India (one trip and $10 million raised so far) and linking up small businesses in Harlem with the big ones in midtown. Of course he's cashing in like no other President has done before. This week...
...down to sell to Vietnamese dealers in the main towns. Ton pays about $20 for a wax-paper sheet of opium, 6 mm thick and as wide as his hand. Broken down into the individual pipe loads he prepares for foreigners, that nets him a profit of about $300?minus the 10 pipes a day he needs to feed his own habit. "Opium, opium," he calls out to foreigners who walk past his sugarcane juice stand. Anyone who tries to actually buy any juice is shunted away. The battered old cane press hasn't worked in years...
...both, simultaneously. The jury is still out. And may always be out. This ambivalence is simply the dualism of the world, the secret of its magnetic fields, its gigantic plus and stupendous minus. We split the atom, and what was the moral meaning of Hiroshima? The lives saved? Or the lives incinerated...