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...prevalent tradition,'" he tells Time. "The word family has a meaning. The word marriage means a union between a man and woman open to life. I hold that a homosexual couple does not constitute a family." It seems likely that Benedict has chosen his destination strategically, in order to hammer home a point. (He is free to select his foreign jaunts from endless invitations.) "It's a gift for the Pope," says Austen Ivereigh, a top aide to Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster. "He can say, 'Look at Zapatero, this is what really underlies European secularism...
...tough New York City cop, Francis X. Loughlin has a knack for getting bad guys to give it up in front of the one-way mirror. Julian Vega was 17 and "as fragile as an egg in a carton" when Loughlin nailed him for the claw-hammer murder of a young doctor. Twenty years later, Julian, now prison hardened, has been freed on a technicality and is bent on proving he didn't do it. Loughlin is equally convinced he got the right guy, but his eyesight is failing from degenerative tunnel vision, and the case has taken a bizarre...
Each week the DCCC brands one congressional Republican the "Rubber Stamp of the Week," to mock fervent support for President Bush, and holds a conference call with reporters in the member's district to hammer the point home. "Our rapid-response operation is presidential timber," Emanuel brags...
...Zedong's unsmiling visage inspired Andy Warhol and adorns China's currency. Now the original portrait of the founder of the People's Republic is--heresy!--going under the hammer in Beijing on June 3. Painted in 1950 by art-school instructor Zhang Zhenshi, the image was reproduced and distributed across China--and was the model for the portrait that still looms over Beijing's Tiananmen Square...
...events in the heptathlon. On the men’s side, senior captain Travis Hughes gained fourth place with a long jump best of 23 feet, 3.25 inches. Senior Kevin Duffy also picked up a fourth-place finish in the javelin (201-08). The Crimson’s best hammer throw came from senior James Rhodes, who hurled the hammer 175-feet and seven inches. Sophomore Alex Obrecht earned sixth place in the shot put (48-11.75). Results from the second day of the Heptagonal Championships were not available as of press time...