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...will this forgiving trait help Bynum keep her flock? Yes, say Butler and others. "Where else can you say that you were the church Jezebel," marvels Butler, "and then recast yourself as a pure, holy single woman living a godly life, then all of a sudden you get married in a big elaborate wedding to a bishop, with 40 bridesmaids and then go off and have a ministry with that husband and tell other church couples, 'This is how to love your husband because we got it right'? - and then your husband beats you up in the parking...
...Minister Gordon Brown made his speech. Yet something was missing: the chance to blow off steam by trading insults or even blows with colleagues. An unfamiliar spirit of universal amity took the edge off debates that in earlier years might have degenerated into cathartic screaming matches. Sheltering from a sudden downpour in the lee of a seafront pub, one Labour old-timer joked to another: "Now that's what I call rain - good and honest, just like Gordon...
...squeamish:” “Despite the fact that logically you should push the fat man and kill one to save five, I’m so personally squeamish about killing other people that I couldn’t force myself to push a man into sudden death.” Destined for MR22 Greatness: Sandel (in discussing whether it is moral to turn a train to kill one person as opposed to running into five): “Why would you not turn?” Student (raising hands in triumphant air punch): “Because...
...this society of sudden economic freedom, newly rich capitalists are eager to clarify their social standing, so they turn to the obvious luxury must-haves: traditional French labels and expensive watches. That explains why Chanel, Lacoste and Dior rank in the top five brands with the highest level of recognition...
...meant much more than buying more shirts or finding a laundromat. He no longer had a school to attend, and his educational future was far from clear. “You have a plan, you know what’s going on in your life, then all of a sudden it stops cold,” he says...