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...Court in lower Manhattan is bracing itself for a large crowd of Madoff victims to witness Thursday's hearing firsthand. The court is preparing two additional overflow courtrooms with television monitors and additional guards to accommodate up to 300 people, according to the judge's spokesperson. (See the top 10 scandals...
...then-presidential hopeful Barack Obama told a crowd of church members that religious good works make up “a thread that runs through our politics since the very beginning. And it puts the lie to the notion that separation of church and state in America means somehow that faith should have no role in public life.” Obama’s statement was met with much criticism—people complained that he was compromising the constitutional separation of religion and political action in an attempt to cater to the Christian right...
Last year, pop-rock artist Gavin Degraw and hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan performed on the steps of Memorial Church to a crowd of over...
...high-risk, questionable venture is a staple of biblical narratives - Noah building the ark, the Israelites heading out into the wilderness without any provisions, the idea that a couple of loaves and fish could feed a crowd. So maybe Rick Warren was reading Scripture instead of the business pages when he decided to expand his ministry this year by launching a glossy new magazine with a $10 cover price...
...Ghraib marketplace in western Baghdad after the conclusion of a nearby peace meeting. But it turned into a bloodbath. At least 32 people were killed - including security officials as well as two Iraqi television journalists - and dozens were wounded after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives belt in the crowd. (See pictures of the aftershocks of the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal...