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...hardwired for scandal. "The Charismatic movement is so driven by emotion and by passion that it sometimes lacks both theological and moral accountability," he says. Others, such as Tim Morgan, an editor at Christianity Today, see it as a more organizational problem - the absence of the kind of internal oversight common in mainline Protestantism and more recently in non-Pentecostal Evangelicalism. "Quite a few of these independent churches feel they are beholden to God alone," says Morgan...
...task force, she said, will be modeled in part on the University Planning Committee For Science and Engineering. Formed in January 2006, that group took just under a year to release its final report, which recommended the creation of a permanent University-wide science oversight committee, and the University’s first inter-faculty department. Both debuted last April, within months of the release of the committee’s report...
...advocate for student life that many hoped he would become. While the Dean’s Fund for Undergraduate Life was used to bankroll many important student initiatives such as the Lamont Café and the Cambridge Queen’s Head, the push for and oversight of many of these projects came from others in the administration. While the primary obstacle doubtlessly was the difficulty of accessing the necessary funds, Gross could have taken a more active role as an advocate for these projects, rather than sometimes being seen as the roadblock to them...
...they welcome his pledges to veto this year's spending bills if the Democrats add a penny more than what he asked for in his budget. In fact, they would like to see more of Bush on this issue. "He should take on Congress," Coburn said. "There isn't oversight done on the vast majority of spending out there...
...that sharply increases the power of the government to spy on suspects. The law authorizes warrantless wiretaps of people believed to be outside of the United States or where a "foreign" connection is suspected. Critics have said the law could be used to spy on American citizens without judicial oversight. A previous interpretation of the law required investigators to obtain warrants...