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...party that needs to stop alienating young, Hispanic, Catholic and working-class voters and start inspiring its dispirited base of fiscal and social conservatives, Rubio would be it. He's the son of Cuban exiles, a bartender and a hotel maid who raised him to remember that faith matters, work pays and politics can stifle liberty in a big way. He's married to a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader, and he's got four young children. He's only 5 ft. 9 in. and 160 lb., with a sweet-faced earnestness that is unusual in politics; after he was elected...
...read it for myself. Though they attend services at a nearby mosque, Royal and Yasin, working their long hours, do not have the opportunity to pray daily. The young Muslim men feel that many Americans are so hostile to Islam that they would not hesitate to ridicule their faith. Royal told me that he is frustrated because, while he must watch pedestrians flouting Islamic traditions all day, he cannot say to anyone that he believes they should convert to Islam...
...Faith schools across Britain are holding their breath and waiting to see if they will need to change their admissions procedures after Europe's largest Jewish school was last week given the right to appeal a court decision saying its entry policy was racist...
...originally called the Jewish Free School) was at first found to be exempt from race-relations laws. But when the case was taken to appeal, judges ruled that the school was violating the law created in 1976 to end racial discrimination in the U.K. The decision rocked Britain's faith schools and sparked a debate over the basis of religious identity as Britain's Jewish community found itself asking, What or who defines someone...
...Snappy Cola. The second story, "Gran'pa Greenbax and the Eternal Smile," focuses on a miserly frog who must confront his thirst for riches when he finds himself the subject of a Truman Show - like plot. In the final story, "Urgent Request," a mousy, ridiculed office assistant puts her faith - and money - in an unsolicited e-mail purportedly concocted by a desperate Nigerian prince. (See the top 10 graphic novels...