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...Buckley sees it, four main issues in the church today "strain reason as well as faith": clerical celibacy, women priests, contraception, and the indissolubility of marriage. He accepts Rome's position on all four, although he is troubled by the reasoning behind the ban on birth control, hopes for a tad more flexibility on remarriage after divorce, and sees no doctrinal barrier to the eventuality of a married priesthood (which exists in the church's Eastern rite...
...picnic on a fallen foe's body; the beautiful blond whose wig falls off in a fight to reveal a perfectly bald pate; the western hero who coolly plugs his lover when the bad guy tries to use her as a shield in a gun fight. Sam didn't strain for these bold, indelible moments. They just came naturally to him. Haute Hollywood patronized him--low budgets, no Oscars--and the dominant middlebrow critics of his high time, the 1950s and early '60s, dismissed him. It was O.K. to see the world as a dung heap if you eventually deplored...
...forgotten, abused and so often neglected black woman." Shaggy lets the men out there know that if you aren't treating your woman with the utmost respect, he is ready, waiting (and very eager) to take your place. During a break in the lyrics, a hypnotic guitar strain emerges as Shaggy serenades one extremely lucky lady (known only by the systematic pants she gives in the background). This song is not probably one that will receive a lot of air time on any radio station, but it is quite good especially for a romantic evening with flowers, dinner and that...
WASHINGTON: When both the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control sound the alarm, you can be sure it's something serious. Their joint survey on tuberculosis, released Wednesday, warns that avirtually incurable strain of TB is spreading rapidly ? and no country, developing or developed, is safe...
...latest strain, an airborne bacterium, is called Multi-Drug Resistant TB. It occurs in TB patients who did not complete courses of antibiotics ? meaning the bacteria learns to tolerate the drugs already in the system. The study found MDR TB 'hot zones' in one-third of the 35 countries surveyed. Alarmingly high incidences were reported in the Baltic states and the Dominican Republic...