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Some observers argue that, like many conservatives in the church, Akinola is motivated less by a desire for schism (or even any distaste for homosexuality per se) than by a sorrowful conviction that Robinson's ordination in the U.S., along with support in other provinces for gay unions, is the last straw in a series of offenses indicating a massive Western disregard for the authority of the Bible. They say he is not so much trying to blow up the communion as force it, by negotiation and a certain degree of brinkmanship, to rein itself...
...door when he was writing. I always felt that I didn't have his full attention. He seemed to be distant, in his own world." For Simon, the early stages of writing a play are a kind of Freudian trek through the subconscious: "There's no blueprint per se. You just go through the tunnels of your mind, and you come out someplace." It takes him about four months to create a play from nothing but considerably longer to refine it. Sometimes he is simply trying to make the play funnier?or intentionally less funny. He prides himself...
...most Indian films inhabit, Ratnam's movies often flirt with incendiary political issues: a terrorist kidnapping in Roja; the 1992-93 Hindi-Muslim riots in Bombay; the rivalry of Tamil actor-statesman M.G. Ramachandran (known as MGR) and screenwriter-statesman M. Karunanidhi (MK) in Iruvar; more terrorism in Del Se; the Sri Lankan war in Kannathil Muthamittal. He is also fascinated with powerful figures in the Mumbai Mafia. Nayakan attached the structure of The Godfather to the career of gang lord Varadarajan Mudaliar, and Ratnam revisited the underworld in Agni Nakshatram and Thalapathi...
Companies grant options to compensate top execs for increasing the stock price. Such grants allow them to buy the stock over a period of time at a price set by the grant date. Backdating--changing the date to make the stock more profitable--is not illegal, per se, but "spring-loading" (granting options before a market-boosting announcement) and faulty or erroneous reporting can violate civil or even criminal laws because of the potential to mislead shareholders...
...guide to everything there is about sex,” Chen said. “Not on how to have sex per se, but a manual with a certain Ivy League legitimacy...