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...curious way, heaven is AWOL. This is not to say that Americans think death ends everything or even that they doubt heaven's existence. People still believe in it: it's just that their concept of exactly what it is has grown foggier, and they hear about it much less frequently from their pastors. To reverse the words of the old spiritual: Everybody's goin' to heaven, just ain't talkin' 'bout it. The silence is such that it sometimes seems heaven might as well not be there. Kreeft complains that even if our basic belief has not wavered...
...acceptance speech, Walters spoke about the concept of leadership, drawing from her numerous interviews with celebrities and world leaders...
Thank you, says Copeland, who put cheeseburger pizza on the Straya menu and says it's a sign of his restraint and good taste that he didn't put this restaurant "concept" farther up genteel St. Charles, "in the middle of antebellum homes." Copeland, who opened his first Straya in a suburb three years ago without complaint, hired some of the 200 employees for his new restaurant from the depressed neighborhood to the north of the restaurant...
...point to a February working lunch between Northeast's Kenyon and the NRC's new executive director, Joe Callen. According to a Northeast memo describing the meeting, Callen told Kenyon that "the overwhelming concern of the NRC is that [it does] not become an obstacle to restart"--a troubling concept to those who believe safety should be the chief concern. Kenyon says the memo is misleading because it "fails to put what was said in proper context." The NRC insists that safety is its priority and that Callen was merely talking about having enough inspectors available...
...find the concept of working in a law firm personally abhorrent. I've told my friends to kill me if they find me working in a firm in fifteen years," he said...