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Take Merril Shapley, who testified last week. He was unsure, nervous and scared as he sat in the witness box just feet from the man he regarded as The Prophet. Warren Jeffs had chosen Shapley's wife, announced it to them both and within hours had presided over their marriage. Shapley, 24, a construction worker, had been called by the defense to persuade the jury that "Uncle Warren" was a gentle man who helped steer young couples through troubled marital waters...
...According to most interpretations of Islamic law, jihad is only justified against an invader that supplants a lawfully chosen leader - the Soviets in Afghanistan, for example. Even according to Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the radical Red Mosque leader who was killed during the siege, jihad did not apply to the situation in Pakistan because Musharraf, hated as much as he might have been, was at least a legitimate President. "But," he warned, "the minute Musharraf's army spills the blood of the Pakistani people just to keep him in power, he is no longer legitimated. Then jihad will be allowed...
REACTION ConAgra, maker of Act II and Orville Redenbacher popcorn, will phase out diacetyl in favor of another additive yet to be chosen...
Compared to these leading programs across the country, it is unfortunate that Harvard has chosen the role of laggard instead of leader. Harvard’s plan in Allston is to get all required City and State permits and begin construction of its new eight-acre Science Complex as soon as possible. Then Harvard tells us it will consider starting an after-school program staffed by volunteers, without budget or professional guidance, in an underused warehouse slated for demolition in a few years...
...while pretending to be other people - but it's not exactly coal-mining in West Virginia. So some of them give back to the world that gave them so much; Clooney, whom I'd call the exemplary Hollywood star, has been especially generous in lending his aura to well-chosen issues and charities. The top actors also appear in films that are, in their subject matter and their underdog status in the commercial movie universe, their own worthy causes. That's what brought Reese and Jake and George up to Toronto: to raise awareness of thorny issues, to speak...