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...helps that the election season has been anything but dull. The sight of a woman, a black man, a Mormon, a Christian preacher and a former POW slugging it out has been as fascinating to many of us out here as it is to American voters. Hillary Clinton appeals to many who have fond memories of her husband's presidency and those who would like to see a woman in the White House; McCain comes off as brave and decent; and in Barack Obama, a biracial son of an immigrant, millions see themselves. "Educated, international-minded Indians get a huge...
Despite retracting his earlier description of the religious right as "agents of intolerance," John McCain still displays a religious tone deafness. Witness his campaign's recent enthusiastic reaction to the endorsement from Christian Zionist John Hagee. The Texas pastor has alluded to the Catholic Church as "the great whore" and has linked it to Hitler. It seems no one in McCain's camp was prepared for angry blowback from Catholics. The conservative Catholic League says McCain "has shown horrendous judgment in buddying up to this bigot." McCain will only say, "I obviously do not" agree with "all of Pastor Hagee...
Instead of caving in to pressure from her archaeologist father to enter academia, Guinean-born Katoucha (born Katoucha Niane) became one of the world's first African supermodels, hitting the runway for the likes of Christian Lacroix and Yves Saint Laurent and starting her own label. Postfashion, the gracious celebrity used her fame and her horrific experience as a 9-year-old to write a book and speak out against female genital mutilation. Katoucha, who apparently fell from the houseboat she owned in Paris, had been missing since January. Her body was found in the Seine...
Before people realized that LarkNews.com was a parody site, it ran an item about the Christian publishing giant Zondervan, which has marketed the Bible to seemingly every niche group but one--a deficit Lark rectified by reporting that Zondervan had put out a new, lifestyle-friendly edition (the "GNIV") for gays. Zondervan promptly called the story the work of a "disturbed individual...
...sure that could happen anymore," chuckles the individual, a churchgoing Evangelical named Joel Kilpatrick, 35. His five-year-old site, a kind of Christian version of the satirical newspaper the Onion, is now recognized as a healthy supplement in an irony-poor culture. Even Zondervan grudgingly admits that the Bible item was "in the spirit of legitimate satire." Rick Warren (WARREN TO BUY SAINTS, BUILD PURPOSE-DRIVEN FIELD) e-mails Lark items to his flock and says, "If you can't laugh at yourself, you have a pride problem. These guys are the best...