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...active member of the Mormon Church until its leadership decided to campaign for Proposition 8. Each Sunday I was appalled by the carefully veiled instructions on how members should vote, saddened by the calls for money and horrified that teenagers were canvassing neighborhoods for support. What troubled me most was that never at any time did I hear a prayer uttered or a compassionate word spoken on behalf of those the proposition would most affect. The church seems callous to the epidemic of suicides among young gay Mormons. No matter how often Mormon leaders utter that worn adage "We hate...
With the death of their boss, the two survivors--Sergeant J.T. "Bomber Mike" Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty)--get a new boss, Staff Sergeant William James (Jeremy Renner), an Afghanistan vet who lacks his predecessor's leadership skills and bluff camaraderie. James doesn't say much and just does his own thing, which is to keep little pieces of Baghdad from blowing...
...German public television channel ZDF, intelligence officials received a tip in May that an al-Qaeda commando had left Pakistan to launch terrorist attacks in Western Europe. The commando is reported to be made up of 15 men - including Americans, Arabs, Chechens and four Germans - allegedly under the leadership of al-Qaeda operatives Abu Abdul Rahman al-Najdi, who was born in Saudi Arabia, and a Californian convert to Islam, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, who is on the FBI's most-wanted-terrorists list. But intelligence officials don't appear to know the current whereabouts of the al-Qaeda-led commando...
...school, “I had a hard time because I’m not the ‘typical’ Ewha girl, I’m not so interested in makeup or clothes. But I don’t think I would have had the leadership positions I had here at a [co-ed] college.” Maybe, despite the opportunities Ewha affords Korean women, the real solution is less pink...
...Iranian leadership ratchets up the rhetoric, the E.U. faces a dilemma. Does it respond in kind, by imposing new sanctions or withdrawing its ambassadors, or does it try to maintain leverage by keeping the channels of dialogue open? (See TIME's photo-essay: "Behind the Scenes with Mousavi...