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...Bets on Vegas Small-screen producers look to Sin City for tales of vice--and a little virtue...
...superficial attraction of Sin City for TV is obvious--sin. "People go there with a certain desire to let go of their inhibitions," says Jack Orman, an executive producer of CBS's forthcoming Dr. Vegas, with Rob Lowe (The West Wing) as a playboy casino doctor. "That generally leads to trouble, which leads to dramatic situations." But for all the sex and show girls, a closer look at the programs reveals Bennettian contradictions: libido and law, hedonism and moralism, revelry and regret. They let the audience, vicariously, be bad and get spanked...
...help me God" at the end of his swearing-in, and Thomas Jefferson extolled Jesus as the most important philosopher in his life two centuries before Bush ever did. Abraham Lincoln, the President whom Bush says he admires most, called the Civil War God's punishment for the sin of slavery, and the presidency an office that drove him to his knees "by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." William McKinley decided to invade the Philippines to "uplift and civilize and Christianize" its people. And Woodrow Wilson, a son and grandson of ministers, believed that...
...Washington Archbishop Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, that is supposed to give them a set of guidelines on the issue shortly after the election. McCarrick has said he has "not gotten comfortable" with the idea of confronting anyone at the altar, even as he has asserted that Catholics conscious of grave sin should not take Communion. The antiabortion group American Life League responded in early May with full-page newspaper ads in the Washington Times featuring a picture of the crucified Christ and asking, CARDINAL MCCARRICK: ARE YOU COMFORTABLE...
...church hierarchy would have learned tolerance by now and ceased engaging in petty political machinations. Has the church come to terms with the numerous allegations of sexual abuse of young boys by priests? Is it possible that all priests who are giving or taking Communion are without sin? I think not. Withholding a sacrament from a Catholic because that person's political beliefs are deemed not worthy is totally against the teachings of Christ. ANNE-MARIE MASSE Pierrefonds...