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Armstrong's step-by-step march down the years shows how a succession of spiritual decisions and political circumstances passed the city from faith to faith. The rise of Greco-Roman power opened the way for the followers of Jesus to remake Jerusalem into Christendom's holiest place, a development she regards with little sympathy. Christians were taught to worship God's presence in Jesus rather than a specific place, she says; only in the 4th century with the archaeologically suspect "discovery" of Christ's tomb within Jerusalem's walls did the church project ideas of the divine...
Forbes explained to the pro-life religious leaders that he does not plan to introduce a constitutional amendment against abortion because he does not think Congress can approve it by the necessary two-thirds. "We need to go step-by-step to move the issue forward," he said...
...does not want to scare away foreign investors. He would rebuild the shattered armed forces, and perhaps most ambitiously, he wants to re-create the Soviet Union or "a great Rus-sian state" of its former republics. Of course, he says, this must be done peacefully, in a "consistent, step-by-step voluntary way, on the basis of elections, referendums and international treaties." Meanwhile, he says, the West must not expand nato by taking in former Warsaw Pact members...
Beyond that, Milosevic is reportedly willing to accept a step-by-step suspension of the sanctions against Yugoslavia, with progress dependent on compliance -- a suspend-comply-lift scenario keyed to the gradual implementation of the Bosnia peace plan. In the first phase, strategic materials would stay on the sanctions list, with the exception of an annual quota of allowed oil imports. The time frame for review remains under discussion, with Milosevic insisting on at least a year between compliance assessments. Whatever the interval, the Bildt concepts are said to insist that sanctions will be reimposed should Belgrade evade...
Just Cause," directed by Arne Glimcher ("The Mambo Kings"), starts out looking like a nearly step-by-step rip-off of "True Believer," where James Woods plays a lawyer trying to free a man who has spent eight years in Ossining ('Sing Sing') for a murder he didn't commit. In "Just Cause," James Woods' Eddie Dodd, a washed-up, 1960s hippie lawyer is replaced by Sean Connery's Paul Armstrong, a lawyer-turned-Harvard professor. Neither of the men has tried a murder case in a number of years, both are reluctant to take...