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...anti-gay bandwagon has even attracted support from abroad. Rabbi Yehuda Levin, of the Orthodox Rabbinical Alliance of America and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada, has been carrying out a three-year campaign against what he calls "the homosexualization of the Holy Land." It was Levin who crossed the boundaries of religious and ethnic hostility and recruited the support of prominent Palestinian Islamic cleric Taisser Tamimi against the parade. Evangelical Christian groups were also upset by what they saw as the deliberate flaunting of sexuality in Christendom's most sacred place. Says Rev. Malcolm Hedding...
...nicely rendered comedy of errors, Letty—who tries to prevent her sister Mary from eloping with Geoff—is thrust into the carriage intended for Mary’s midnight escape. “Compromised” by having been seen abroad with Geoff, Letty is encouraged by her parents to marry him. Mr. and Mrs. Alsworthy, who are thinly veiled copies of Jane Austen’s Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, have a clear financial interest in their daughter’s marriage...
That’s a reasonable argument, but it’s not the whole truth. Since there are over 120,000 children in the U.S. foster care system awaiting permanent homes according to the Associated Press, economics alone cannot account for the demand to adopt from abroad...
...applicants from the United Kingdom were from private schools. With the number of applications from the United Kingdom overall rising substantially over the past few decades, according to McGrath Lewis, Harvard is also seeking to ensure “access to the strongest candidates.” Alumni abroad, McGrath Lewis said, are the Admissions Office’s strongest resources for recruiting these students in the United Kingdom. Current recruiting practices in the United Kingdom differ markedly from those domestically, McGrath Lewis said. The Admissions Office relies mostly on the alumni network for student recruitment rather than identifying...
...even faddish subjects and elevates them into requirements. “Reason and Faith”-type courses for example, should certainly be an option in whatever comes to replace the Moral Reasoning requirement. But to require it as a field in its own right simply because religious conflict abroad and religiosity at home are on the rise makes general education more beholden to the news ticker than the essential components of knowledge...