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...that the government has set a number of caps on Wall St. pay packages, the question is whether the financial firms can get around some of the rules. Certainly not. Congress has too much invested in showing the public that it can bring down the people who tend to get the most blame for the collapse of the of the credit system...
...Wall St. won't get a chance to humiliate Congress even if the new rules will damage the most profitable parts of the financial system...
...heal the schisms within the church, in doing so he has also brought an increased focus on fundamentalist beliefs and hostility toward other religions back to the Catholic Church. His desire to reunite the modern Roman Catholic Church with several more conservative factions, such as the Society of St. Pius X, of which Williamson is a member, along with his steadfast condemnation of birth control and homosexuality, reveals a troubling pattern of conservatism during his reign. While the reunification of the Catholic Church is a commendable goal, Pope Benedict XVI must be more prudent in his actions in the future...
...errors have become the excuse for others to distort the historical record, ignore basic facts of canon law, and libel the Pope as they go. The true story is straightforward. On July 1, 1988, the Vatican published a decree stating that the four new bishops of the Society of St. Pius X had incurred an automatic excommunication for being consecrated by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre against the will of Pope John Paul II. In response to their numerous requests for the removal of their excommunication, Pope Benedict XVI issued a formal retraction of that decree last month. The very point...
...best thing and the worst thing about Springfield is the same: the location. Middle of Illinois, which is not far from the middle of nowhere. The Illinois capital is about 100 miles from St. Louis, 200 miles from Chicago or Indianapolis. You can fly there, but probably not on a plane with much overhead bin space. More likely you will arrive at the end of a long car ride, having enjoyed wide vistas of flat prairies...