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...incompatible with Christian teaching"--prevailed by votes of roughly 2 to 1. That kind of majority is satisfying in electoral politics, but alarming in groups that regard themselves as constituting the body of Christ. Mainline Evangelicals and some gay-rights advocates have threatened to abandon their denominations, and the specter of full-blown schism looms in the future. Even in the bosom of the relatively unruffled Episcopal Church, whose representatives will meet in Denver on July 14, the issue can wreak havoc. When a Seattle-area rector told his 300-person Episcopal congregation some time ago that...
...Gore, sources said, got defensive and angry, and prosecutors (including the whistleblower this time, Justice's campaign finance division head Robert Conrad) came away more suspicious than ever. They told Reno so. Someone at Justice (apparently not Conrad) decided to leak it to Republicans on the Hill, and Arlen Specter saw fit to tell the world...
...political press says things like this "could not come at a worse time for Mr. Gore," (New York Times) ignoring the obvious fact that September, say, would be a far worse time. Failing an about-face by Reno, it'll be up to George W. Bush to do what Specter and the Republicans haven't been able to - keep the issue on the electoral radar until it really matters...
Washington and Wall Street are bedeviled by a specter--the specter of dotcom start-ups and the rise of the nerd class. The fantastic wealth of the new economy and the renegade attitude of its Netizens are deeply upsetting to the old order. The result is a cultural battle illustrated most dramatically by the Microsoft case. Surprisingly, the outcome of this conflict has a lot to say about whether we will still turn pages as we read...
...fighting agcy. of the '40s 33. Word on a striker's placard, perhaps 34. Euro forerunner 35. Money obtained as political patronage 36. Holder of Nixon's "smoking gun" 37. AC rating units 38. Org. in the movie Michael Collins 40. Site of controversial May 28 presidential runoff 42. Specter may seek a sanction against him over the fund-raising scandal 44. Neighbors of radii 48. They're sometimes put on 49. Gene, who is advising Clinton on an economic plan for impoverished areas 52. Rebels demanded this Fijian President step down 53. Henley crewman 54. James in the Rock...