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...Catholic Christendom. It was to preserve those ties that More, the great humanist and loyal church reformer, debated the disloyal Protestants. It was to preserve his pious England that More enforced the ban on translations of the Bible into the incendiary vernacular, arguing that to "believe nothing but plain Scripture" was "pestilential heresy." There were more things than words to treasure in a London, as depicted by Ackroyd, full of Maypoles and processions and founts of sacredness, a city in which each day was significant in God's calendar. More knew the King's marriage would shatter that order with...
...album does contain some refreshing interpretations of Cash's songs, while other interpretations do a decent job of simply imitating Cash's dry, soothing tones. Most of the renditions on the collection, however, are just plain random, running the gamut from the grunge rock/heavy metal chords of The Staggers' "Cry, Cry, Cry" to the zydeco twang of How's Bayou's "Johnny Yuma." The album simply jumps from one sort of sound to another with no transition, and the end result can only be called jarring. Americana also has its share of positively dreadful, not quite convincing singing, such...
...reason is plain old cynicism. Corruption and crime predate civilization, so why should we bother to stop them now? But another reason, running far deeper, is harder to admit. As the American hesitation to support international justice reveals, we do not like it when other people make us play by the rules. That's not because we feel comfortable dodging justice. It's because most of us are the kind of people who at bottom believe, despite the educated words we might use in debate, that the rules do not apply to us. It is the same attitude that allows...
Jaspal Pabla, the former owner of Delhi Darbar, will try his hand elsewhere. According to Jaswinder Singh, Pabla's cousin and an employer at the Cafe of India, Pabla will work at a new Indian restaurant, Bhukhara, in Jamaica Plain...
What is fascinating about Ask Jeeves is that it allows you to perform sophisticated searches by merely asking a question in plain English. Tracking down Seattle hotels is as easy as typing "Which hotels are in Seattle?" and hitting the GO button...