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...term rentapriest.com. "The name itself doesn?t inspire serious people to take them seriously." (Haggett says she thought the name would be a "good way to attract media attention.") But objections from many in the Catholic establishment to the site - and its mission - go well beyond semantics. The concept of laicized priests taking on the role of active priests is, Walsh insists, in direct conflict with Catholic doctrine. "Either you?re a priest in union with a diocese or you?re not. To suggest otherwise is wrong," she says...
...When the concept came up, I had the same question: Why's a Jewish kid from Texas doing a series about a minister...
This all-star brainchild of Damon Albarn from Blur; Dan (the Automator) Nakamura; Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz from Tom Tom Club; and Tank Girl animator Jamie Hewlett is technically a concept album: the CD plays a cartoon on your computer. Well, forget the 'toon and listen to the tunes, for this is the most imaginative pop record of the year. Nakamura's beats are wonderfully atmospheric and danceable; Del Tha Funky Homosapien's playful rhymes are the perfect foil to Albarn's ennui-filled vocals, and Weymouth's giant bass whomps away throughout...
...Fair & Lovely, points out that unlike other creams, Fair & Lovely contains no harmful ingredients and is actually certified safe by the Kenya Bureau of Standards. Still, he says, many of the more harmful products continue to sell because people want quick results. "Are you familiar with the 50-50 concept: someone who has one black parent and one white?" he asks, explaining the social pressures on women to lighten their skin. "When a girl like that walks into a bar all the men will look at her. So other girls want to make themselves like that...
...Doubtless there will be some speedy readers who won't mind the concept of renting a book for ten hours. For others, the idea of a book that can deliberately make itself unreadable at a given moment - no matter the reason - will have a disturbing, Farenheit 451-ish quality to it. Luckily, there's still an invention that will let you read the same book at no charge for two or three weeks, during which time you can lend it to as many friends and copy down as many passages as you wish: the public library. But how long such...