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...also allowed the cleric to rearm, clean his own house and retake the reins of his splintering movement. However, Sadr's devoted rank and file seem to be itching for a fight now as the Iraqi government and their American backers take sides with rival factions and continue to crack down on Sadr's Jaish al Mahdi, or JAM. "Sadr has had an interest in making sure everyone knows he's still around," Nasr said. "He's not going to go down without a fight...
...programs and ministries, Trinity succeeds in providing more for the South Side than any other church, government or private institution. Rev. Luke Watson, another Good Friday speaker, credited Wright for guiding him away from life of crime, which started early with an absent father and a mother addicted to crack. "I was like that thug, the criminal next to Jesus," Rev. Watson said. "I thought, what's that guy doing here? He ain't done nothing. I'm the real sinner." Wright had taught him that God loves sinners, too. "I learned that I wasn't born bad," and then...
...Wire,” people who write fiction and poetry would be looking for work. Have you seen it?FM: Just one season over winter break. There isn’t much time to watch TV here.BJ: Really? How are you not addicted to it like crack?7.FM: Your collection of short stories, “Corpus Christi,” gets its title and setting from your hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas. What do you find so distinct and compelling about the city?BJ: It’s a city that’s interestingly situated. It?...
...racism to public view and to redefine the issue for the future as the challenge of building opportunity. The bigger challenge is whether the message will resonate with white working class Pennsylvanians, especially white men who have proven one of the toughest political nuts for the Obama campaign to crack. That's a much bigger problem, and it will take time to sort out how this speech plays out against centuries of racial tensions that have been part of Pennsylvania politics. After all, there's one town - York - that surrendered to the South before the battle of Gettysburg...
...Still, it's difficult to believe that the crack former prosecutor would allow himself to get caught up in the routine IRS investigation that led to the exposure of the prostitution ring. As Spitzer knows better than most, banks must inform the government of suspicious transactions like unusually large or frequent cash withdrawals and requests to break down money transfers into small amounts. (Spitzer appears to have used both methods to pay for prostitutes.) Investigators are particularly watchful when a public official is behind such transactions - something Spitzer also would have known. During a lunch with TIME staffers...