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...outraged by this,” Dines said. “This makes the women and the students in general look stupid.” Hirsch was joined by colleagues in the pornography industry Ron Jeremy and Monique Alexander who debated with pastor Craig Gross, founder of the XXX Church, and Donny Pauling, a former porn producer, about the merits of pornography. Their debate will be aired on ABC’s “Nightline” this evening. Sex Week at Yale has increased in popularity every year since Eric. J. Rubenstein began the effort to involve Jewish...
...ruled Cuba since major intestinal surgery sidelined his elder brother in 2006, might be willing to break with family tradition. But even as Ral reached out to the U.N., his state security agents were arresting and roughing up dozens of dissidents who had taken sanctuary in a church after a peaceful human-rights march in the southeastern city of Santiago...
...procession had started at the Parliament, wending its way through damp Belgrade streets to the monumental St. Sava Church, the largest Serbian Orthodox church in the Balkans. There, high priests delivered "prayers for Kosovo." The former Russian dissident and Nobel Laureate Aleksander Solzhenitsyn sent greetings from his home in the U.S. state of Vermont, calling on Serbs to "stand by your graves." (Kosovo is the site of a famous defeat at the hands of the Ottomans that is deemed a cradle of Serbian identity...
...months of trading photographs and sweet nothings, he decided that he could no longer live without her. So he drove all the way to Baghdad, where, after getting caught in a firefight between militants and American soldiers, he met Miriam for the first time in the back of a church. Not long afterwards he moved Miriam, her mother and father, and what possessions they could pack in a small truck back to northern Iraq. He rented them all a house in Ankawa, and married her last spring. "It was like living in a cage in Baghdad," said Miriam...
Vatican diplomacy is indeed a delicate endeavor, and freedom is a double-edged sword. If the Church is granted the role of mediator in the phase-out of the command economy and state-controlled media, it would apparently have much to gain in securing the good will of Cubans. Still, liberalizing Cuban society could come with troubling side effects for the Catholic hierarchy. A free economic market could bring the kind of unbridled capitalism that both John Paul and Benedict have denounced in the West, while complete religious freedom would open the door in Cuba to the previously shut...