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...editors: Your recent editorial (“Exempting the Church,” Mar. 14) made an excellent point: in the ongoing “clash of values” between Massachusetts and the Catholic Church over adoption by gays and lesbians: the interests of the State’s vulnerable children in need of adoption—the silent third party to this feud—should not be overlooked. Nevertheless, I write to point out a course of action the piece’s authors overlooked—one that would allow the state to avoid this dilemma...
...uninspired assortment of regurgitated sounds. Each song calls to mind another band that’s already been there and done it with much more panache. For example, “Cash Machine,” the album’s first song, sounds a bit like the Clash, albeit a Clash with way too much studio time and a narcoleptic Joe Strummer. The lyrics are Gang of Four-lite, providing a faint-hearted critique of capitalism that doesn’t extend far beyond a complaint that not having money sucks. Dance-rockers Radio 4 provide the basis...
...remember that the paramount issue in this whole debacle is the interests of the children whom the charity helps. In this case, the empirical facts are too compelling to ignore. It would be simply unjust to condemn these many children to the instability of foster homes because of a clash of values between the Church and state with, though vital, fewer tangible effects...
There is nothing like a tour of Gaza City to show the clash of styles between the old Palestinian guard and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that swept January's legislative elections. First stop: the gabled, stone mansion of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, high walled and with enough guards to protect Fort Knox. Next: the residence of Ismail Haniya, the newly designated Prime Minister. Haniya, 43, insists on living at his family home?in a Gaza slum, where the lanes are crisscrossed with Hamas' Islamic green flags and clotheslines of wet laundry. There are no gunmen outside Haniya's simple...
...Hamas deal with each other. But Palestinians are more worried about another showdown: between Hamas and Fatah, the organization founded by Yasser Arafat, whose members do not want to relinquish control of the Palestinian government to the upstarts. Both Palestinian officials and Israeli security experts say that a clash between the two forces is inevitable and could swiftly turn violent. The feud runs deep. Fatah members are secular, while Hamas' leadership is guided by the Koran. Palestinians complain that many of Arafat's old commanders are little better than gangsters, men who made fortunes when they arrived from exile...