Word: difference
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Religion in America has changed over those years, says Ostling, as has the job of covering it. Familiar denominations no longer provide most news stories. Many churches have splintered, as worshippers differ over doctrine or follow charismatic seers. Parishioners struggle over how their churches should relate to society. Says Ostling: "It's more difficult now for those of us who watch the field to decide what we should cover. We have to be a lot more limber, and continually re-examine the news." This week's assessment of the Mormon Church, on which Ostling worked with Correspondent Edward...
...issues of this campaign, however, are Brooke's famous "misstatement" during his divorce proceedings, and Guzzi's late entry into the race in apparent response to Brooke's sudden vulnerability. The reason for the proliferation of small issues, in turn, is that Tsongas, Guzzi and even Brooke do not differ greatly on the substantive issues...
Tsongas and Guzzi differ even less on the issues. Indeed, when Tsongas entered the race, which was at a time when Guzzi had no intention of following suit, the secretary of state gave Tsongas lists of his financial supporters, a sort of unofficial endorsement, Tsongas says. And, because the two candidates' positions are so similar, Tsongas received a substantial amount of money from those people--before Guzzi tossed his hat into the ring...
...Jordan's celestial assistant. It was not an easy experience. "We had plenty of disagreements, but they weren't violent," says Henry. "When Warren wants to do something his way, he has it all figured out. So you goddamn well better be prepared to argue your case if you differ with...
...something of a miracle that in Look Who's Talking! she does not end up talking to herself. For the controversial subject of communication between humans and animals can be one long semantic rabbit hole down which any curious Alice can easily lose her orientation. Definitions of language differ among physiologists, behaviorists, linguists and philosophers, with the gloomy Ludwig Wittgenstein once suggesting that even if a lion could talk, we would not understand it. Sapient quadrupeds and "talking" lesser primates could also challenge a sacred precept of Western culture: that man is superior to nature...