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...last few weeks, 23 of North America’s top universities have signed up to join a brand-new competitive collegiate league. Students from McGill, Princeton, Stanford, University of Chicago, Yale, and Harvard have answered an irresistible call: the opportunity to introduce an entirely new game into the hallowed halls of college sports...
...Political problems call for political solutions. A viable case against al-Bashir would be one that respected his Sudanese sovereignty. ICC efforts that involved state actors in Darfur, specifically Sudanese judges, would lend this international legal action domestic legitimacy among oppressed and propagandized Darfuris. This collaborative and respectful approach is the only road to justice...
...Farrow said she witnessed the destruction of one village, in which 60 people were burned alive. “Families are stuck wandering, not sure if they’ll find food or water, not sure if their attackers will come find them,” she said. Farrow called for UN sanctions, arms embargoes, and the appointment of a special envoy to the region to stop the bloodshed. “The Obama Administration has not yet appointed a special envoy to Sudan,” she said, adding that American citizens must call their representatives and demand action...
...Solomonic as the compromise seems, giving up the word marriage may be impossible. For many couples joined in matrimony, having the state no longer call them married may make them feel as if something important had been taken away - even if it's hard to define just what was lost. And for many others - the folks who feel most strongly about marriage and most passionately supported the expensive campaign to defeat gay marriage - the issue of nomenclature is only the beginning. They are against not just gay marriage but also gay couples - and especially against government sanctioning of those relationships...
...signs that the priest has to look for: abnormal strength, the ability to understand unknown languages and the knowledge of hidden things. But they're very arbitrary, even those things. So they have to be in concert with something else. And typically what priests look for is what they call the aversion to the sacred, which is a person's inability to pray, to say the name of Jesus or Mary, to even look at the priest. Typically, when the person comes to see them, it's the last thing they want to do. They tend to have gone...