Word: christiane
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...Like so many actors before her - Robert Downey Jr., River Phoenix, Christian Slater, Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe - Lohan is as self-destructive as she is gifted. She crashed her Mercedes on Sunset Boulevard on Memorial Day weekend, got arrested for a DUI, was photographed slumped in a car in a stupor, and checked into her second rehab stint in four months. The once lovable (and bankable) child star looked as if she was finally trading the vivacity that first won over audiences in 1998's The Parent Trap for vapidity...
...founder of eHarmony, Neil Clark Warren, has no interest in helping me meet a nice guy. Warren is a conservative Christian, a former recurring guest on James Dobson's radio show, a man who used the overweening right-wing group Focus on the Family to help promote eHarmony in its early days - and a man who apparently believes that gays are some kind of different species...
Lina Joy chose her faith long ago. Born a Muslim in the multiethnic nation of Malaysia, she started attending church in 1990 and was baptized as a Christian eight years later. But on Wednesday, Malaysia's highest court blocked her final attempt to have her conversion legally recognized by the state. It was a blow to her heart as well as her soul. Malaysian law prohibits marriage between Muslims and non-Muslims, so Joy will not be able to wed the Christian man she loves...
...Malaysia has long trumpeted itself as a moderate Muslim nation committed to safeguarding the rights of its diverse population, an ethnic olio worthy of a Benetton ad: Muslim Malays, Christian and Buddhist Chinese, Hindu and Sikh Indians, animist indigenous peoples. Indeed, earlier this week in the capital Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi hosted the annual World Islamic Economic Forum, where he held up his homeland as proof that Islam did not equal extremism...
...hopes for, can the island get it right where so many others have failed? Maybe. In 2003, a group of former mercenaries known as the Buffaloes seized power for a week to protest over the secrecy and corruption surrounding concessions granted to Nigeria. The Buffaloes are now the Christian Democratic Front, and the support they lay claim to underlines public wariness that São Tomé might "do a Gabon," as the party's leader Alecio Costa puts...