Word: lettering
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Sotheby's counters that the omission to communication problems--that Shearman did not return their phone calls seeking his permission to print his letter...
Shearman, who is well-connected in art circles, wrote a letter to Sotheby's in early December, saying he doubted the painting was wholly authentic...
...increasingly in jeopardy. On Wednesday, after a long day of campaigning for Bush across Michigan, Engler realized that rebellious Republicans may not be his only problem--or even his main one. At a cheerleading dinner in Muskegon (his second on behalf of Bush that night), Engler held up a letter from the newest force in Michigan politics: an outfit called DOGG (Detroiters Out to Get even with Governor Engler). Written by a Democratic state representative, the letter asked 200 Detroit clergymen to urge their mostly Democratic congregations to vote for John McCain in the Republican primary next week. Engler implored...
Last February, Paul Weyrich came to a similar conclusion. In an open letter to his Free Congress Foundation, Weyrich, perhaps the most influential conservative strategist of the past two decades, declared his life's work a failure. "Conservatives," he wrote, "have learned to succeed in politics. That is, we got our people elected. But that did not result in the adoption of our agenda. The reason, I think, is that politics has failed...
...female pastorate. Circuit-riding priests would stop by a church to celebrate Communion and hear confession. In between, however, women--church trained and often called pastor--ran the parish. Eventually there were at least 300 such arrangements (some say there were thousands), but after John Paul II's 1994 letter banning further talk of ordaining women, the movement tailed off. The Pope's decree, however, did not affect "spiritual directors," one-on-one religious tutors who have thrived since Vatican II. Many of them are women...