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...circle, lighted the two-page letter and left once it had burned. Soon after, she returned to find grass burning. As the first-response forestry fire fighter, she radioed for help and began containment efforts. But the prosecutor alleges that she wanted the fire to spread--and whatever her intent, that's what it did. The flames leaped at the rate of a foot per second, engulfing more than 136,000 acres to become the largest conflagration in Colorado's history. Barton's admission--seven days after the inferno began--made it clear that the catastrophe is more than...
Your item on actress Jennifer Garner's upcoming movie, Daredevil, noted that she gets to wear great costumes, like the form-fitting, black leather outfit she sports in the photo accompanying your piece--which her ninja character wears to "go out killing" [PEOPLE, June 10]. How sickening! Is Hollywood intent on continually glorifying violence with movies that feature ridiculous plot lines and scantily clad women? Thanks for saving me 10 bucks. Daredevil is one movie I will not be seeing! ALISHA DHILLON SINGH Bellevue, Wash...
...Whether the developed world is prepared to offer improved access depends on Africans providing proof of their intent to crack down on deviant states. President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe is one such example; a harder line on that troubled state by African Presidents would have won them more sympathy and support at Kananaskis and beyond. Africa also needs to choose its flag-bearers with care. NEPAD is currently spearheaded by Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa, not all examples of good governance, democracy and human rights...
...wouldn't know it from the media frenzy that followed Wednesday's decision, some lawyers agree with him. They say that in the strictest reading of the Constitution there is no room for religious terminology in what should be a secular space. While some legal experts applauded the intent of Newdow's suit, no one seemed to think the ruling would survive very long. But for pundits and politicians the fuss can go on forever...
Advisory panels, however, while a step toward healing a broken trust, are designed to address isolated crimes, not daily life. While intent on reaching out to their flocks as never before, the bishops are not moving toward the kind of representative democracy that some lay activists dream of. "I don't believe that the solution to the church's problem is to replace clericalism with laism," Bishop Wilton Gregory, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, told TIME. "I do not see the Catholic Church becoming a democracy." That was not Jesus' vision, he contends...