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...Losers JESSE JACKSON Bush administration declines J.J.'s request to solve the Hainan incident with "religious diplomacy." Beijing kowtows in gratitude ELTON JOHN Shopaholic pop star loses multimillion dollar lawsuit against his former accountant and ex-manager. Time to slash the fresh flower budget? STEVE BUSCEMI Fargo star gets stabbed during a North Carolina bar brawl. Intense method actor vows to use his injuries to fuel rage-filled indy film performances...
...widespread if superficial gospel that amounts to praying for dollars. This turns out not to be the case. The riches he has in mind are the wealth of God's spirit, and the more one has, the more one wants to spread it. He interprets Jabez's next request, "enlarge my territory," as a plea for the biggest possible evangelizing field. "Clearly," he writes, "it is His complete will for us to reach the world--right...
Last Thursday 250 victims of Timothy McVeigh's bomb--some who survived the blast, others who lost loved ones to it--were granted their request to witness his execution on closed-circuit television. In announcing this departure from normal procedure, Attorney General John Ashcroft spoke of the need "to close this chapter in their lives" and emphasized "the magnitude of this case." (There are too many mourners, given the 168 killed, to fit into the prison observation room...
Furthermore, the protestors’ request that they face “no academic ... repercussions” for their participation is groundless. Though PSLM stated that its members “are prepared for any repercussions,” their claim to deserve immunity simply because they are “acting to make [Harvard] a better university” brings into question their commitment. Part of the purpose of protest is to indicate depth of feeling and willingness to suffer for the cause; if the consequences of missed classes are more important than raising workers’ wages, then...
...result of all this is a request on behalf of the audiences of my nation to the performers of yours: Do not let us in. In the end, I suspect it will be better for all concerned. And, while I will regret my own banishment from the playhouses, I will retain the bittersweet satisfaction of no longer needing to be ashamed of my country’s entitlement, rudeness and general ignorance in matters of etiquette and good theatrical taste. If you bar us from your theaters, perhaps you will be able to practice your art in peace. Perhaps, instead...