Word: visione
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...determined to start a new chapter that he now plans to leave England and move back to the Netherlands. "I came for Joy Division, I've made my movie," he says. Granted, it took 28 years, but Corbijn still has the time and the passion to recast his powerful vision...
...taste its foul air or look at the huddled masses who have been left out of the boom, it would be easy to conclude that Hu's job had hardly started. In his first years in office, it was often said that Hu was unable to get his vision adopted by powerful provincial leaders. But the old judgment that he is a weak leader may be changing. Li notes that the President has spent the past five years ensuring that the top bureaucratic and party ranks were staffed by his allies. Green detected a growing assurance in the times...
...election in December 2000, I received a phone call inviting me to Austin to meet with him and a small group of religious leaders. The President-elect wanted to discuss his oft-stated passion for really tackling the persistent problem of poverty and to tell us about his vision for "faith-based initiatives." I had not voted for George W. Bush, and that fact was no secret to him or his staff. But he reached out to me, and to others in the faith community across the political spectrum, because we shared a common concern. I was impressed by that...
Speaking before a full crowd, the 61-year-old leader articulated his vision of a United States of Africa. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...that bestows such gifts such as speaking in tongues, healing and prophesying. From its emergence in Los Angeles exactly a century ago, it has tended to be exuberant, physical and generally more theologically adventurous than its evangelical cousins. And despite thousands of pastors and churches that pursue their joyous vision without taint, scandal has dogged some of its most prominent figures. Among the best-known were the late 1980s downfalls of televangelists Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart: Bakker, who was undone by charges of fraud, and Swaggart who was caught with a prostitute, had preached a "theology of prosperity" suggesting...