Word: stemming
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...emptive wars, liberals who have written off anyone who opposes abortion and a media penchant to pigeonhole (because it’s easier that way) the political views of Catholics and their Church. Remember two years ago when President Bush and the Pope met to talk about stem cells? Of course you do, except it never happened. Check the July 24, 2001 New York Times article, dredge through 1100 words of rehashed stem cell information and at the very bottom you’ll find that Bush told reporters that “he and the Pope spoke mostly...
...mince words when it comes to decrying the plight of the world’s poor and horrors of globalization, tells America’s supposedly devout leader that he needs to take a more moral approach to these issues—and all we hear about are stem cells? The same goes for the Vatican’s outcries at unilateral action in Iraq which—outside of Christopher Hitchens’ observation last winter that “An awful realization has been dawning upon the Bush White House. Christianity is a religion of peace?...
...backed court in Sierra Leone on charges that include crimes against humanity; by Interpol in Lyon, France. Taylor, whose rule was characterized by civil war and ethnic conflict, was forced to step down in August under international pressure. He currently lives in exile in Nigeria. The charges stem from Taylor's alleged training of rebels in Sierra Leone who engaged in the torture and murder of civilians...
...exonerate him. It's an uphill battle. Plath could certainly be difficult, and unquestionably the presence of Hughes, a major poet in his own right, accelerated Plath's development as a writer. But nothing in Her Husband will settle the question of whether Hughes exacerbated or merely failed to stem the self-destructive urges that finished her. What's clear is that like Lucia Joyce, Plath was finally consumed by the dark star she orbited. But her story has a very different ending. Unlike Lucia, in death she eclipsed...
Some of Karzai's troubles stem from conflicts with the U.S. He wants to build an infrastructure, disarm the warlords and stop drug trafficking, but the U.S., already distracted by Iraq, has focused on hunting down al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Yet despite this, both groups are making a resurgence. In the Zabul and Kunar provinces, governors have faced assassination attempts...