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...both characters truly believe that love is the morning and the evening star. They are no less themselves as preachers than as sinners. Gantry rails against demon booze from the pulpit, and downs a quart with the boys in the backroom. Clinton proselytizes for the V chip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Gantry Addresses the Flock | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

Answering those questions is clearly a job for Father Lorenzo Quart, ace trouble-shooter at the Vatican's cloak-and-dagger Institute of External Affairs. Although lacking Agent 007's license to kill, Quart is distinctly Bondish: tall, cool, impeccably clad and cursed with dreamboat looks that fluster women into worrying if their lipstick is on straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That's Quart. Father Quart | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

Abandoning his studied neutrality, Quart eventually performs a priestly act that saves Our Lady of the Tears, but at the cost of his ecclesiastical career. In doing so, the priest, who imagines himself a kind of modern Knight Templar, finds his true self by breaking through the armor of discipline and obedience that has served him as a surrogate for faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That's Quart. Father Quart | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...worry screen of most Americans. But not of politicians and government statistics moles, who last week adjusted the Consumer Price Index downward for the fourth consecutive year. Stifle that yawn. The CPI, the nation's principal gauge of inflation, is not just a measure of the price of a quart of milk or a gallon of gas. It is easily the most important weapon in the government's considerable measurements arsenal. It forms the basis for annual benefits adjustments to some 80 million voters, from union workers and Social Security recipients to government retirees. Funding for food stamps and school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Measuring The New CPI | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

Guests are prohibited from bringing in any alcohol and residents can bring in a six-pack of beer or a one-quart or one-liter bottle...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Zuckerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MIT Frat Probed Following Poisoning | 12/2/1997 | See Source »

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