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...that the church's earlier policy against gays has been replaced by one with constitutional force, Anderson predicts some gays and lesbians will leave the church, since the amendment states that you should not hold office if "refusing to repent of any self-acknowledged practice which the confessions call sin." He also says the church will find itself in a hypocritical bind if it chooses to enforce "chastity" and not the 17th century bans on divorce and working on the Sabbath. Anderson, however, is not abandoning his church: "I'm in this for the long haul," even if takes "another...
Just as conversation stopped in the 1940s when Luciano entered a room and an austere silence of mixed awe and respect descended, it is a cardinal sin to whisper and interrupt the don during The Godfather. As one of Luciano's buddies would recall in a recent A&E docu-drama, "The clink of a glass, the drop of a hat--you'd hear the littlest sound, everyone was so quiet when Lucky arrived at the club." These were high profile men: men who drank their whisky straight, men who traveled in a cloud of cash and Cuban cigars, leaving...
...played with Holocaust gold shows us Swiss citizens that we are not as special as we sometimes believe, nor are we better than the rest of the world. We are responsible for our share of the guilt and we must carry it. But if any person is without sin, let him throw the first stone. Fifty years after the end of the war, the veil of secrecy is finally being lifted. And it is not only the Swiss who are looking for fame, power and money. LOUIS NIEDERER Winterthur, Switzerland...
...have noticed. Most of our cohort could care less. Our parents, on the other hand, moan about it and fondle it from one moment to the next. Some beg us to embrace the Internet as a paradigm of civic virtue, while others see it as a conduit of sin, the high road to pornography and all manners of smut...
...Inactivity is a sin in boxing. Trying to come back and defy the odds is one thing. There comes a point when you realize you don't have it."--Sugar Ray Leonard after losing his comeback bout against Hector "Macho" Camacho...