Word: clergyman
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...terrorist attacks have produced collateral damage in an unexpected place: criminal courtrooms. It's not hard to see why Al-Amin, an Islamic clergyman who shows up at trial in traditional Muslim robes, would be worried about facing a jury right now. But legal experts say the impact goes beyond Muslim defendants or even immigrants. Suddenly the balance between prosecutors and defendants has swung, particularly in cases in which now lionized police officers are witnesses...
...event featured five scheduled speakers—one alumna, two graduate students, a clergyman and a musician—followed by an “open megaphone”session during which members of the audience shared similar viewpoints on the U.S. response to terrorism...
...Afghans that support will drain away. If the U.S. and its allies want to get Omar, it should be far easier than nabbing bin Laden. For the past six years, Omar has worked from his guarded, palatial Kandahar bungalow. Just a year before that, he was a mere village clergyman living in a two-room rural house made from...
...young clergyman is described as having the face of "a sheep with a secret sorrow." Sociopolitical generalization? This is as close as Wodehouse gets: "Unlike the male codfish, which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons...
...Behind the Music episodes. The priest's collar is her latest zag. After years of criticizing Roman Catholicism (including infamously ripping up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992), she decided last year to be ordained as a priest by controversial Irish clergyman Bishop Michael Cox, the leader of a tiny religious sect. However, O'Connor hasn't quite joined mainstream Catholicism. Cox has come under fire in the past for reportedly offering confession over the telephone. And according to Des Cryan, assistant director of the Catholic Press and Information Office in Dublin...