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...last day in the CIA, agent Nathan Muir (Robert Redford) recounts the story of Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt), whom he recruited and mentored. Bishop is about to be executed for a rogue raid on a Chinese prison, and Muir wants to rescue him. The excess of talk, some of it nicely smart-alecky, is relieved by much standard action-movie fieldwork: explosions, car chases, muttering. Though the film ranges the world and the decades in search of coherence and consequence, it finds none...
...Fearful for their believers' souls and welfare, leaders of China's roughly 60 million Christians have mobilized. Last year a man claiming to be Lightning's coordinator for north China met secretly with a senior aide to a Catholic bishop in Hebei province to try to convert the Catholic leadership there. He failed, and the bishopric has warned clergies to remain vigilant against Lightning. In Henan, the main church in Dengfeng county called a meeting of 70 lay leaders for a two-day training session on Lightning's "heresies"?but since then five of the leaders have joined the sect...
...World Championships where she won bronze medals in both the single and double sculls competitions, events in which both finals took place within an hour and a half of each other. Massachusetts is well represented in this event—Carol Skricki of Norwood, Mass., and Cindy Bishop of Boston, Mass., follow Karsten in the starting order...
Tension mounts as Apostolis hinders his son at every turn in his mission to do the patriotic thing for Greece. Christos turns to his grandfather for help instead, and the two carry messages from the soldier to the region’s bishop, who is deeply involved with the underground resistance to foreign rule. The mission ends tragically when Christos decides to take up the soldier’s fight, leaving his family and village behind, marching towards a certain, but glorious death...
...Says Reah: "If you can prove that you're a long-term established partner, you should be treated the same as a married person." But how does one prove partnership? What constitutes long-term? "Marriage is a contract and a public commitment to share," says James Jones, the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, who has written extensively on the importance of marriage. "Partnership is a private arrangement which deliberately lacks that public commitment and those legal obligations." That's true today. But if Homsi and Harris have their way, partnership will soon come with recognized benefits - and take on public characteristics...