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...Vatican will try to restrict homosexuals from joining the priesthood. As 256 of the world's bishops gathered in Rome for a three-week synod--the first under Pope Benedict XVI--details filtered out to the Italian press that something a bit less draconian than a blanket ban was in the works. A long-shelved document providing specific admission instructions to seminaries is expected to be issued in November. The "instruction" from the Congregation for Catholic Education would add some teeth to a long-standing but often loosely enforced ban on the ordination of gays, but it would also allow...
...somebody who believes in evil. I think that people do things for a reason-that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors. I think that it's important to understand how that occurs. Just to put a blanket term on it, and say, 'Well, they're evil'-that doesn't really explain what happens. The fact is real people are committing these crimes, and it could be your neighbor, or the local high-school gym teacher, or whatever. They are real human beings. They had childhoods, they had events...
...sooner sprung and sworn than a war erupted over why it took Miller and her lawyers so long to get a waiver from Libby in the first place. One of the principles over which Miller said she went to jail was her belief that the so-called blanket waivers of confidentiality signed by Libby and several other White House officials were coerced from them, leaving her no choice other than to continue protecting them. But Libby's lawyer Joseph Tate suggested that Libby had offered Miller a freely given waiver as much as a year ago and that her lawyers...
...makers of “Venom” also resort to the oldest scare tricks in the book, making most of the movie predictable. The ever-present blanket of fog, the constant rustling of wind in the trees, and the malfunctioning, blinking halogen lights are in no way innovative elements in horror films...
...about whether he had intimidated minority voters as a Republican poll watcher during the 1960s in Arizona, where he was practicing law at the time. Rehnquist's critics produced affidavits alleging that he harassed voters at a predominantly black and Hispanic Phoenix precinct in 1964. Rehnquist issued a blanket denial that he had challenged the qualifications of minority voters in that period. Democrats found 14 witnesses who swore they had seen Rehnquist doing exactly that; additionally, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Phoenix, James Brosnahan, testified that Rehnquist was not being truthful when he said he was at the polls...