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...Could somebody have a husband and a woman partner at the same time and be a Christian? ... I doubt that very seriously." DONALD WILDMON, Fundamentalist minister, protesting the appointment of Patricia Ireland, the former president of the National Organization for Women who lived with a woman while remaining married, as head of the YWCA...
...Like many Afghan returnees, Barmak has faith in his people's ability to rebuild the country. But as with Osama, which was produced with funding from Ireland, Iran and Japan, he knows they will need a lot of help. Movies, he says, will play their part: "They can give Afghans a mirror with which to restore their sense of identity." In a way, Barmak has already achieved that for his people. When he shows Osama on his next mobile-cinema sortie, he might just inspire a whole new generation of filmmakers. In a land where darkness reigned for so long...
DIED. NOEL REDDING, 57, bassist with the Jimi Hendrix Experience; of natural causes; in Ireland. Redding, whose untraditional bass line provided essential support to Hendrix's revolutionary guitar playing, backed Hendrix on three of the most influential records of the late 1960s...
...luck of the Irish run out? While the euro zone's largest economy, Germany, is slipping toward deflation, Ireland has runaway inflation that threatens to dull the Celtic Tiger's famously sharp teeth. Although Ireland's gross domestic product grew an impressive 6.3% in 2002, its inflation, which approaches 5%, is the euro zone's highest. With prices already 12% above the euro zone's average, a new government report warns that the country will surpass Finland in 2003 to become Europe's most expensive country. In the early '90s, Ireland was one of the E.U.'s cheapest. Ireland...
Becella and her husband will be seeking greener pastures in Ireland next year—where they will move to fulfill their dream of cultivating a garden together...