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Many Kyushu daimyo adopted Christianity as a means of winning favor with the Portuguese traders, without necessarily abandoning their Buddhist beliefs or Shinto practices.
One of the cover pieces predicts that Newt Gingrich will be ousted as speaker by the end of next year: His lieutenants (Richard Armey, Tom Delay, John Boehner, Bill Paxon) are abandoning him because he has betrayed them repeatedly.
Everybody fronts (with accompanying photos) Elizabeth Dole's announcment yesterday that she was abandoning her presidential campaign.
"The leader of the nonproliferation effort over the last 50 years, the United States of America, is not abandoning its leadership," said Sen.
Parents are abandoning the PTA in droves for groups that are more local and hard-hitting, says a report . The PTA's reformist mandate--it pioneered libraries, hot lunches, and kindergartens--has degenerated into mere boosterism.