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Bush’s new executive order will allow religious groups to receive public funds, regardless of their hiring practices. As a result, groups can refuse to employ people who do not share their religion or their morals—opening the door to discrimination based on religion and sexual orientation...
When facing solid defensive teams, there is some point at which you have to abandon the pretense of balanced scoring and depth to get one or two lines that can consistently put the puck in the back of the net, regardless of the opponent...
...major step that Harvard still needs to take, regardless of its steps up and steps back against BC and Maine, is its big game performance—a full 60 minutes of effort, without the frequent penalties...
...Today Gao is adjusting to what he calls his "second exile," his escape from Nobel celebrity. After Taipei, he will retool Snow in August for a production in Marseilles, where 2003 has been declared the Year of Gao Xingjian. Regardless of plaudits, prizes and criticism, Gao will no doubt continue along his solitary, unflinching path. "I think he has an interior mission," says translator Dutrait. "He's determined to go all the way to the end, the end of his dreams of total art, of cinema, painting, novels, theater, everything. And he must go faster. He sees the time passing...
Thus there are two options left to churches, and both would probably be considered extreme by mainline standards: the route of liberal churches such as the United Church of Christ, which allows its congregations to adopt “open and affirming” positions, whereby all people, regardless of sexuality, are allowed “full membership” including leadership; or the route of conservative churches, like the Southern Baptist Convention, which is unambiguous in its distaste for homosexuality and its practitioners...