Word: statement
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...believers to join its state-supported Christian church. (The government sanctions five carefully monitored religious organizations.) In a prelude to the Millennium World Peace Summit in New York City last week, Fu Tieshan, Beijing's state-appointed bishop, maintained that "there is no religious persecution in China." Yet his statement came just days after the arrests of nearly 200 Christians. The raids also snared three American evangelists, who were deported...
...mixed team finals of the North American Bridge Championships in Anaheim, Calif. While the Gates squad finished 50th out of 52 teams, Mr. Bill seemed buoyed just to be in the heady air of all those bridge geniuses. "The game is so deep," noted Gates in a statement released during the tournament. "There's always something you can learn." Gates also reportedly told competitors he "will be back bigger and better next year." The Department of Justice has been advised...
...thousand-day romance that snagged headlines and tugged at countless hearts. But last week the romance was over. In a joint statement to the New York Daily News, ELLEN DEGENERES, 43, and ANNE HECHE, 31, said, "Unfortunately, we have decided to end our relationship. It is an amicable parting, and we greatly value the 3 1/2 years we have spent together. We hope everyone will respect our privacy through this difficult time." The paper cited an unnamed friend who described the relationship as having run its course. The couple met amid the swirl of controversy surrounding DeGeneres' coming...
...ugly and remain in litigation. "Basically, it's a contract dispute," Stine says. "Basically, it's about Scholastic trying not to pay us our share. They made hundreds of millions of dollars on Goosebumps, and they're trying to keep it all." Asked to comment, Scholastic faxed the following statement to TIME: "Bob Stine and Parachute made tens of millions of dollars from Scholastic's publishing of Goosebumps. We look forward to the court reviewing what Bob Stine did, and did not do, for the money that was paid...
...creativity. What Louis wrought was a revolution. Before Armstrong, popular singers inhaled deeply, puffed out their chests and projected. After him, most have tried to do what he did so magnificently: find elation or sadness or humor in the song and let it issue forth as a purely human statement. Dizzy Gillespie, speaking of Armstrong's role in the development of jazz trumpet, said, "No him, no me." They're words that could be spoken just as appropriately by singers as disparate as Tony Bennett and Mick Jagger...