Word: splits
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...clerics and scholars pondered the question Is God dead? (the subject of a 1966 TIME cover). Asked what is going on now, they first cite denominational differences and the ongoing religious split between modernists and traditionalists. Episcopalians have always been less eager than Baptists to stress the hereafter. Liberal mainline pastors are more reluctant than Evangelicals to review the joys of eternal communion with the living God. Yet with some notable exceptions, the phenomenon seems transdenominational. Martin Marty, the respected University of Chicago religious historian, says, "I can recall from my [Lutheran] childhood many sermons on what used...
...depth of the stage was exploited to its fullest: stifling scenes of Baal's seedy attic in the gut of the stage, outdoor romantic ones in the woody fringes and a split stage for crowd scenes. The objects that took central stage were apt, given the nature of the play: a stained bed, a drinking table and a dining table...
...into the press, but documents generated by the federal investigation challenge the popular view of academe as a bastion of high-minded collegiality. At regular intervals, financial-aid officers met to compare the aid packages each planned to offer individual students. When variances arose, the group agreed to split the difference. In one case, M.I.T.'s assistant aid director found himself compelled to increase a family's contribution more than 30%. Next to the student's name, he wrote, "Don't like it, but..." then went ahead and raised it. The cost to a school of defying the group...
Israel's actions in Jerusalem are pre-empting the result of any such negotiations. Here is a simple analogy: while you and I are trying to agree on how split a cake between us, I go ahead...
...anted her marriage annulled. Lawyers for Saima's parents argued that the tenets of Islam prohibit women from marrying without parental permission -- and indeed such permission is the norm in Pakistan. The judges ruled that Saima's marriage was valid a nd did not violate Islamic doctrine. What the split on was whether the law permits women to make their own choices in marriage. One of the three judges said the marriage should be annulled. Another said it was legal. The third came out somewhere in the m iddle, saying women normally need their parents' permission to marry, but that...