'God Exists.' " Baker engages with her reaffirmed faith in "Rejoice," a soaring three-minute ode to belief that has become the climax of her live set, and which she calls her "mission statement, if I have one".
Elisabeth Rosenthal (NYT) PHILIPPINES: ARROYO REAFFIRMED The Supreme Court reaffirmed the legitimacy of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who took power in January when Joseph Estrada quit the presidential palace in the face of mass demonstrations and military pressure.
While its situations are more complex and less ham-fisted than those in many inspirational stories of reaffirmed faith, "Mooz-lum" (the title is from a sneering mispronunciation of Muslim) suffers from one-note characterizations with analogues in similar if Christian-theme movies.
Shame, too, on the Arab members of the United Nations that reaffirmed support for Syria's election even after Mr. Assad turned his guns on his people.
But there were other stories, too – and I'm not talking about the occasional overwhelmingly joyful tales that reaffirmed one's faith in humanity.
There were, of course, moments of beauty, of escape and of accomplishment: a dazzling exhibition of the works of Matisse and Picasso; the final film in "Lord of the Rings" trilogy; and baseball playoffs that reaffirmed, at least in Boston and Chicago, the relation between hope and despair.
It was beyond the "wildest dreams" of London 2012 chairman Lord Coe – a golden weekend that reaffirmed Britain's place at the top table of world sport, sparked a wave of euphoria across the country and further elevated soaring expectations for the rest of the Olympics.
"Credit cards with security interest provisions are a way for these lenders to get on the list of reaffirmed loans," said Chi Chi Wu, a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center.
For his part, Kennedy served as a key vote on critical cases upholding a woman's constitutional right to choose, including co-authoring a 1992 opinion involving Planned Parenthood that reaffirmed Roe as precedent.
