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...neighborhood in Atlanta killed an 88-year-old woman while serving a “no-knock” warrant in search of drugs. The investigation is ongoing, but it looks like the police had the wrong house. A confidential informant publicly revealed that the police told him to lie about buying drugs from that location after the shooting had occurred...
Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I always tell the truth. Even when I lie...
...Episcopal Church of the USA. Orthodoxy, on the other hand, regards homosexuality as deviant, and gay Orthodox Jews are as closeted as they are in, say, the Southern Baptist Convention. Until today Conservatism followed Orthodoxy?s legal lead, based in part on the biblical injunction that ?You shall not lie with a man as with a woman.? But many Conservative congregations have openly gay members, and pro-gay-rights sentiment is on the rise, especially among younger Jews. At the branch?s largest teaching body, the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, a group called Keshet has been handing...
...value of Sharia courts, say advocates of the system, lie in the fact that their religious legitimacy gives them a degree of cultural authority in the community that British courts might not have. For civil matters, Sharia law supporters argue that what counts is a resolution that both parties adhere to - and one that eases pressure on Britain's notoriously overburdened legal system and avoids the grievances that occur if ethnic minorities feel they have been judged unfairly. In fact, very few people - and certainly not all those who sit on the Sharia councils - believe the courts should stray into...
Cameras supposedly don't lie, yet in this lovely, wordless story the photos from a camera found by a boy on a beach are hard to believe--fantastical creatures, underwater realms, seashell cities. What to do with such a magical device? One shot gives the clue: a self-portrait of a child holding a self-portrait of a child, and so on, back through the generations. The boy tosses the camera into the ocean, to become flotsam on the imagination of another youth on another shore...