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...starvation. In the end, the entire bear population would stand the chance of being malnourished and less able to endure a hard winter. In their hatred of hunting, the animal rightists are endorsing a practice that would cause much more suffering and a lingering death for the animals they profess to care about. DUANE PORTERFIELD Bullhead City, Ariz...
...They claim to smuggle in as many as 10,000 Bibles at a time. Many evangelists openly compete for Chinese converts, posting tallies on websites of how many souls they've saved--a somewhat questionable estimate, since most Americans don't speak the same language as the people they profess to be converting. Religious travel agencies guide devotees through tricky visa applications and advise them to elude the police by immediately boarding a train after blanketing a town with religious material. Evangelists are taught to speak in code, referring to the Bible as "bread" and God as "the boss...
Shannon's sentiments, if a little overenthusiastic, are fairly orthodox. You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who does not outwardly profess that a market correction and a separation of wheat from chaff are good for Internet business. But a lot of get-rich-quick dreams have died, and it would be surprising if disappointment did not manifest itself...
...Although falling short of its potential, The Virgin Suicides is a movie worth viewing. And as a bonus you can give the director and stars your opinion by traveling to the film's website www.virginsuicides.com. You can tell Sofia her debut was as good as her acting career or profess that her film debut was better than hubby Spike Jonze...
...Lift High the Cross" (FM, April 13) could critique evangelical Christian groups. The piece may also be an affront to Christianity in general. I profess to be Catholic, and though I may not agree with the tactics of all the groups participating in Jesus Week--which would normally be called "Holy Week" on traditional liturgical calendars--I loathe denouncing them...