Word: wronging
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Still, Ranke-Heinemann is not a litmus-test feminist. Although some feminist cults yearn for paganism to supplant Judaism and Christianity, Ranke-Heinemann contends that Catholicism went wrong when it spurned the healthy outlook of the Jewish Bible and absorbed hostility toward sex from certain pagan groups. On abortion, she notes that ancient Judaism and Christianity joined in opposing the pro-choice stance of paganism. Her fury is aimed only at the official Catholic teaching that it is better to let a pregnant woman die than to perform an abortion...
...flight after a five-year absence (he had left to get treatment for a kidney-stone ailment and later opened a gift shop), apparently became disoriented in the murk shortly after pulling his DC-9 away from the gate. According to investigators, he made a left turn onto a wrong taxiway, then failed to turn right onto a second taxiway that would have led him back to his assigned takeoff point. His delayed right turn placed him on the active takeoff runway (3 Center...
...feels it went wrong long before Tom Stoppard sat down to write his doggedly faithful adaptation of John le Carre's best seller, long before director Fred Schepisi shouted "Action!" (or, possibly, in this case, "Stasis!"), perhaps even before the novelist set to work on his book. Le Carre seems to have gone off at about the moment the literary world made him its designated serious entertainer and he started believing his enthralled reviews. All his recent books contain far more writing than they require to explore their conventional characters and ideas. "Oh, get on with it," one snorts, setting...
...outlawed the practice in 1954, these schools are a function of changing demography, not of statutes. Disillusioned and frustrated by the failure of busing to improve the quality of education for their children, black parents are leading the fight for good black neighborhood schools like Dumas. "There's nothing wrong with them if it's simply a matter of geography," says black Boston state representative Byron Rushing...
...TODAY'S anti-war protestors believe the origins of intervention in Kuwait are comparable to those in Vietnam? Probably not, unless all those "Learn the Lessons of Vietnam" teachins have their history wrong...