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...well as his efforts to balance faith with reason. I disagree, however, with the suggestion that Catholics have the prerogative to "legitimately balance church teaching against the demands of their conscience." There is a Vatican II that existed only in the imaginations of a generation into sex, love and rock 'n' roll. When one attends to the actual written documents of that Council, what one discovers is the same Catholic teachings as before. The bishops simply put the key focus and dynamics of the church on paper. Sharon Reidy, Bedford, Mass...
Although he played in one of rock 'n' roll's most influential backing bands for nearly 40 years, Danny Federici hardly reveled in the limelight. The E Street Band keyboardist--he played organ, accordion and glockenspiel, as the situation demanded--would arrive just in time for shows, then duck out as soon as they finished, leading Bruce Springsteen to call him "Phantom Dan." He first played alongside the Boss in clubs on the New Jersey Shore in the 1960s, and his signature sound can be heard on many of Springsteen's hits, notably 1973's 4th of July, Asbury Park...
...huge success at selling books, but she's becoming something more. People dress up like her characters. They write their own stories about them and post their tales on the Internet. When she appears at a bookstore, 3,000 people go to meet her. There are Twilight-themed rock bands. Meyer has, like one of her vampires, turned into something rare and more than merely human: a literary phenomenon...
...defining feature and matter of controversy for another musical genre. Among cries of protest against the aggressivity of lyrics, whispers of change have recently been heard among hip-hop’s fans, who don’t want to see their music take the same turn as popular rock and country. “Take Back the Music,” a hip-hop songwriting contest sponsored by Essence Magazine and the Berklee College of Music, is emblematic of the voices currently challenging artists and consumers to re-think the elements that define rap music, opposing not only...
...scale of the risks they were taking. Tiny C. Hoare & Co. - pretax profit for the year to last April was a modest $32 million, up 8% from the previous year - has prospered over the centuries by keeping it simple. Two-thirds of its income still derives from providing rock-solid banking services - deposit-taking or loans, say - to its wealthy customers through just a pair of London branches. (Investment or financial-planning advice and help with tax or trust issues bring home the rest.) And with the Hoare family's seven managing partners on the hook...