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...expulsions in its 177-year history. The minister of one of the expelled congregations told reporters she was "stunned" over the lack of dialogue preceding the vote. In Nebraska, however, there was a healthy debate both inside and outside the church in which the hearings took place. The Rev. Mel White, a California-based gay-rights activist, imported 100 protesters, who faced off outside the church with a flock led by peripatetic Kansas-based Baptist minister Fred Phelps, who's gaining a reputation as the nation's most vociferous anti-gay crusader. Inside, Creech told a panel of priests that...
...Senate campaign in my home state of Missouri began almost as soon as the 1998 elections were over. For a year now, everyone has known that Gov. Mel Carnahan, a moderate Democrat, will be challenging the incumbent Sen. John Ashcroft (R-Mo.), a conservative Republican and a favorite of the Christian Coalition. With such a stark contrast between the candidates' positions, there's no question that some otherwise forgettable decisions might take on great political significance and that impartial government might fall by the wayside. Unfortunately, with such a long race, the casualties--including some very talented people--are already...
...political outcry was immediate, and Ashcroft, eager to capitalize on the decision, later invited the family of Mease's victims to attend hearings. Since the Pope's visit, Carnahan has been doing all he can to look tough--as one aide told the Washington Post, "Mel's been stacking up bodies right and left"--but the death penalty is still a sore spot in his campaign. So when Ashcroft described Judge White as "pro-criminal and activist" on the Senate floor, he was making a perfect political maneuver. Yet as Ashcroft surely knew, the description didn't quite match...
NAME: Danny Glover OCCUPATION: Tolerating Mel Gibson COUNTERPUNCH: The Lethal Weapon star and onetime cabdriver filed a formal complaint with the city's taxi and limousine commission, charging discrimination, and proposed all taxi drivers take a course in diversity training...
Trouble is, the voice is still the same scratchy, little-girl voice as before, and the tunes, while catchy, are still the same teenage-targeted, forgettable tunes as before. Heck, the girl won't even use her full name, still clinging on to the Mel C moniker (it's Melanie Chisholm, if you must know). Solo album or not, this is still the same Spice Girls album dressed up in slightly more sophisticated hues...