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...Hispanic Catholics find affirmation in the South, Northerners often experience a transformation. Dianne Rider, 45, was a doctrinal moderate when she lived in Yonkers, N.Y. As a parishioner at St. Mark, she is a strict adherent to Vatican instruction. One reason: in a region where the first question you're asked when you meet someone is often "What church do you attend?," Rider is in constant contact with Evangelicals and other Protestants who are still mystified by Catholics and frequently "call us onto the carpet to explain what we believe. It has helped take me back to the basics...
...give fiction a go. She began working for MI5 in 1965, when, as the wife of a British diplomat in New Delhi, she was hired as a local office clerk. Upon her return to London, she started spying on Soviet spies in Britain--and keeping her profession a strict secret. "Back then," says Rimington, "people tended to say they worked for the ministry of defense, but that invited questions like 'What do you do there?' So I had a variety of covers"--from military bootmaker to cosmetics-firm consultant--"and as I got older and more experienced, I'd have...
...surface, it's an inspired idea to transpose Austen's comedy of impeccable manners from the county of Hertfordshire to a proper middle-class family in Amritsar, Punjab. Both 19th century Britain and modern India are societies with strict modes of behavior, where subversion is practiced with a raised eyebrow. (A recent, pretty decent Pride and Prejudice, available onDVD, was set amid another cloistered group, young Mormons.) But Chadha and co-writer Paul Mayeda Berges seem less interested in explaining India's social conservatism than in larkishly mocking it, pinching the cheeks of the supporting characters until they blush into...
...There was a strict relationship between positions of neurons and functions of neurons. There was no exception,” Ohki wrote...
...security environment is such that even some government officials are not exactly optimistic about the turnout. Electricity Minister Ayham al-Samarrai, for example, predicts that the national turnout would be around 25 percent of eligible voters. The insurgent threat has also compelled the authorities to adopt strict security measures, such as banning all non-official vehicles from the roads on election day, that may depress turnout...