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...weather. Don't turn my boy into some saint! He is cheerful and happy-go-lucky and his letters happily reflect lightheartedness. He prefers to do things with his own age group rather than with a gloomy and venerable papa, thank God. Anyway, when I visit him nevertheless in July and go hiking with him, it will be more of a pleasure for me than for him; the love between parents and children is always somewhat onesided, but nevertheless not unhappy! But when I get preached to by Mrs. Besso and by you about love and conscience and am reminded...
...sold missiles to longtime ally Syria, but the weapons haven't actually been shipped, as far as Washington knows. The Bush administration was less than thrilled when Moscow invited Hamas leaders to visit after they won the Palestinian elections - the organization is still on U.S. and European terror lists. Nevertheless, says the senior U.S. official, "as near as we can gather, they passed on the right message about recognizing Israel, renouncing terrorism and adhering to all the obligations the Palestinian authorities had undertaken" about negotiating with Israel...
...Nevertheless, Williams looked at the American church's unwillingness to fully repent its election of a gay bishop in 2003, and effectively threw up his hands, declaring "whatever the presenting issue, no member Church can make significant decisions unilaterally and still expect this to make no difference to how it is regarded in the fellowship." In his lengthy "reflection," he proposed a two-tier system for the global communion. One tier would consist of "constituent churches" - full members which agree to sign a future covenant - and the other tier would include "churches in association" which would have weaker observer status...
...Nevertheless, the thinking goes, if San Francisco's local plan for the uninsured takes off, it could be a model for other metropolitan regions nationwide. "This is a city that wants to right the proverbial wrongs," Newsom says. "We tend to march to the beat of our own drum and that, hopefully, is something that can awaken people's imaginations elsewhere...
...aspire to build an empire. On their own turf, their goal is to preserve quality, reform slowly, and set an example others will want to follow. That 1,300 boys can swim in Eton's bounty when millions of British teenagers cannot is in some sense unfair. Nevertheless, Little says that his friends who are state-school headmasters "tend to be rather pleased that places like Eton exist. They're a point of reference for what you can do if you have the money; of something that can be moved toward." He has a point; it is unlikely...