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...saving the deal," says TIME London bureau chief Jef McAllister. "But Sinn Fein, the government of the Republic of Ireland and the moderate party SDLP preferred by the majority of Northern Ireland's Catholic voters have warned that suspension could create a dangerous vacuum and deal a mortal blow to the peace process...
...live in an age when inspired brats make great heads of software companies. But Americans would prefer a grown-up in the White House. Even the gaudiest prosperity is mortal, and one of these days, the ice floe may start to break up under our tents...
What does it take to get those mortal enemies, China and Taiwan, to work together? Just a Chinese kid who moved to New York City. Hu's Shadow Magic, about a British entrepreneur (Jared Harris) bringing the cinema to China in 1902, is the first film co-produced by the Beijing Film Studio and Taiwan's Central Motion Picture Corp. Hu, 44, is a child of the Cultural Revolution; her parents were sent to labor camps while she served as a Red Guard. She taught herself English and in 1979 was among the first Chinese sent to U.S. schools...
...mentioned that Bradley, by refusing to discuss Christ on television, was not posing as an interpreter of God's design, as are so many others. But in the crowd following Christ, Nicodemus, a mortal who thrives on suspicions, said, "If Bradley won't even mention the name, could he be denying Christ? Let me see him get away with that...
...take a Hitler, a mortal threat, to move the Allied democracies from complacent enclaves to the global powerhouses that by century's end would embrace most of the world's people? Here is a place to draw the line. "It may be true that we've got great medical breakthroughs, radar, sonar because of war," says theologian Marty, "but I don't like to make a theology out of that; it's an accidental product." Rosenbaum agrees that to focus on the benefits is to risk trivializing the tragedy itself. "There are a lot of people who want...