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...casting in Downey's favor. "You can't have a moral reawakening if you're in high school. You have to have done things in your life to be able to look back and say that I've made mistakes or maybe I should re-evaluate the way I approach things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Downey Jr.: Back from the Brink | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...same time it can subtly reduce religious belief to a lowest common denominator. Faith can become a passive acceptance... without practical relevance for everyday life. The result is a growing separation of faith from life." Combined with what he called our "individualistic and eclectic approach to faith," he said this can lead to what he noted St. Paul termed a temptation to "conform to the spirit of the age." The Pope then gave a pointed example: "We have seen this emerge in an acute way in the scandal given by Catholics who promote an alleged right to abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope Faces His US Flock | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...Chief Justice John Roberts observed in his opinion that "some risk of pain is inherent in any method of execution," and held that the Constitution condemns only "substantial" or "objectively intolerable" risks. Six other justices shared the chief's conclusion that Kentucky's approach passed muster, but only two of them - Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito - were willing to sign the chief's blueprint for deciding how much risk is too much, which included the vague standard that challengers must show that there were alternatives that were "feasible" and "readily implemented" that would "significantly" reduce a risk of severe pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A False Consensus on Lethal Injection | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...closed both games, picking up the save in game three of the series—her fourth save of the year, tying the single-season school record—and producing two shutout innings in each contest. Part of the success has been due to a change in mental approach as well. “I think that earlier this season, and earlier in my career as a pitcher, I walked a lot of people and that’s been sort of my Achilles heel,” Madick says. “When I don?...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Athlete of the Week: Captain Pitches In for Crimson Win Streak | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

Central to its new approach to Islam, the Church, after years of diplomatic niceties, has made clear that freedom of religion is non-negotiable - for example, that Christians should be free to practice their faith in an unhindered manner in Islamic states. Still, missteps have continued on this and other fronts, including the Pope's high-profile conversion baptism on Easter eve of a controversial Egyptian-born Italian Muslim. The point the Pope wanted to make - that all should be free to change their religion - was again overshadowed by polemic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's Geopolitical Agenda | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

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