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...extent of Jesuit influence exacerbated past papal mistrust, especially during the 1970s, when the order appeared to many to take a pronounced leftward tilt. Tensions broke into the open when Pope Paul VI decided that too many of the members were involved in secular matters, including politics, to the detriment of their priesthood. Whenever a papal teaching was questioned, Jesuits always seemed to be in the thick of things, whether the topic was birth control, homosexuality or female priests. Soon after he became Pope, John Paul picked up Paul's refrain, denouncing the order's "regrettable shortcomings...
Fashion is painful. Women suffer pinching, scratching, binding, twisting in the name of chic. Push-up bras give you the lush bosom of the '90s, but the underwire cuts into your rib cage. Panty hose are hot and, frankly, sweaty. High heels give your hips an alluring tilt, but after a 10-minute walk, your feet scream. Short skirts are young and kicky. But how young do you want to look when you can't sit comfortably...
Hussein, who retains absolute authority over defense and foreign affairs despite his country's cautious development of democratic institutions, ascribes Jordan's pro-Iraq tilt to "the people's will." For the moment, the King has the support of the populace, and he has vowed to "respect that trust." But that leaves him facing a painful dilemma: he can either stick to his present course and suffer economic collapse or denounce Saddam and risk the wrath of his own people. In the midst of his indefatigable efforts to find a way out, the King last week shared his views with...
Even as some fear fully integrating the robust German economy into the European Community (EC), many "Europeanists" fear exactly the opposite--that unification will tilt Germany back eastward, building a German-dominated bloc in Central Europe...
Saddam probably based his opinion as much on U.S. actions over the past decade as on anything Glaspie said. He had watched the U.S. withdraw from Lebanon after its embassy and Marine barracks were truck-bombed in 1983, benefited from Washington's tilt toward Iraq in the war with Iran, and noted the relative lack of outrage against his use of chemical weapons on Iraqi Kurds. He apparently concluded that he could invade Kuwait and face little more than formal protests from...