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...city's most overcrowded precinct - in the heart of the bustling Chinatown - the lunchtime line snaked far around the corner of the block at the Chinese Christian Church at 10th and Spring streets. Easily a hundred people waited in line as a cold, and previously unpredicted, rain began to fall. The precinct was supposed to have only around 1,200 voters on the rolls but wound up this year with more than 4,000. Christy Kam, 26, a dance instructor, waited in line for more than an hour to cast her first-ever vote, only to discover that...
...days, the 20-something black man heard friends complain about long lines at so-called satellite early voting stations here in crumbling Gary, Indiana. So he rose before dawn today, put on his baggy jeans and white leather jacket, and showed up at the Gary Christian Center for Youth, on Broadway Street, one of this city's main boulevards. "I was thinking I'd be able to get in and out of here at a decent hour," said the man, who declined to give his name...
...fifth anniversary of 9/11, he wondered aloud whether the Islamic conception of absolute submission to God might preclude reason, and even help explain why today a disproportionate number of Muslims are killing in the name of religion. Most explosive was a reference in the speech to a 15th-century Christian Byzantine emperor who said: "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman...
...Kalin, a Turkish-born Islamic theologian who teaches at Georgetown University, was one of 38 Muslim scholars and imams who sent a "letter of clarification" after the Pope's speech. Exactly one year after Regensburg, he helped establish "The Common Word" committee of Muslims to improve relations with all Christian denominations. His group has already met in the U.S. and Britain with Protestant leaders. To be now invited to the Vatican, Kalin says, is a major step toward a permanent dialogue to improve relations between Muslims and Christians...
...Kalin says he hopes the summit will produce some specific agreements, including a sort of "crisis hotline" between Muslim and Christian leaders to help avoid or quell religious discord, such as the violent protests in the Islamic world after the Danish papers published cartoons some deemed offensive to the Prophet Mohammed. Kalin also wants to fix a day each year when Muslim leaders teach their faithful about Christianity, and vice-versa. And finally, some Muslims would like a debate that goes beyond the Pope's call to a "dialogue based on reason." Kalin wants an acknowledgment of common "Judeo-Christian...