Word: topicalism
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...controversial Chinese director; from filming on the mainland for five years, by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television; in Beijing. Lou reportedly failed to seek approval from government censors for his film Summer Palace-set in the days leading up to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, a topic Beijing considers taboo-before screening it at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Lou called the ban "ridiculous" and said it would not stop him from working...
...problem with rerunning an old play is that the opposition figures out how to thwart it. Democrats, having largely steered clear of national-security issues in the 2002 and 2004 campaigns for fear their war reservations and civil-liberties concerns would brand them as effete, are embracing the topic, and they appear to have found their voice with a steady insistence that Iraq has been mishandled. Thus, for the first time in the five years since 9/11, national security is a jump ball...
...just have to muddle through until you get to heaven?" asks Joyce Meyer, a popular television preacher and author often lumped in the Prosperity Lite camp. "I believe God wants to give us nice things." If nothing else, Meyer and other new-breed preachers broach a neglected topic that should really be a staple of Sunday messages: Does God want you to be rich...
...with almost any important religious question, the first response of most Christians (especially Protestants) is to ask how Scripture treats the topic. But Scripture is not definitive when it comes to faith and income. Deuteronomy commands believers to "remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth", and the rest of the Old Testament is dotted with celebrations of God's bestowal of the good life. On at least one occasion--the so-called parable of the talents (a type of coin)--Jesus holds up savvy business practice (investing rather than saving...
Siegal said that he became interested in the topic after President George W. Bush denounced the Times in June for disclosing information about the government’s policy of monitoring the currency transactions of suspected terrorists...