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The question is, does the new policy work? At the time, critics in the poor, socially conservative and largely Catholic nation said decriminalizing drug possession would open the country to "drug tourists" and exacerbate Portugal's drug problem; the country had some of the highest levels of hard-drug use...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work? | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

Mohler's view is, to a certain extent, shared by Joseph E. Kurtz, Archbishop of Louisville, who leads an ad hoc panel of U.S. Catholic bishops set up to fight gay marriage. He too sees a potential future when a greater acceptance of homosexuality leads to pressure on churches to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Gay Marriage Pit Church Against Church? | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

Boyle's story is similar but with fewer light notes. Her hardscrabble town was Blackburn in Scotland. She also auditioned for a Barrymore TV show, but didn't make the cut. Yet she took singing lessons and recorded Cry Me a River for a charity CD in 1999, the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Susan Boyle: Not Quite Out of Nowhere | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

Though paramilitary groups are common inside South American neighbors like Peru and Colombia, they are not in Bolivia. Opposition leader and Santa Cruz Prefect Ruben Costas suggested Thursday's events might be a government stunt orchestrated by Morales, who has declared assassination plots against him on several occasions during his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Plot to Kill Bolivia's Leftist President? | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

The Catholic Church in Paraguay, if not the Vatican, also stands to suffer scrutiny as a result of the paternity episode - especially if the claim that the sexual relationship between Lugo and Carrillo began when she was a minor is true, something the President and his lawyer adamantly deny. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Paraguay's President Survive a Scandal? | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

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