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...Bundeswehr has become increasingly engaged in international missions and is coming under pressure to step up its involvement in out-and-out warfare. After what Schneiderhan said last week, however, many are wondering whether it's up to the task. (See pictures of the former East Germany making light of its dark past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Germany's Army Ever Be Ready for Battle? | 6/27/2009 | See Source »

...following the letter of the law, OSE is violating the spirit of the law. Connecticut’s lobbying rules intend to shed light on backroom deals, not public protests. And the five firms that the Church uses to lobby the legislature are already registered with OSE. In its defense, OSE says it wants transparency, but it’s hard to miss 3,500 people standing in front of the state Capitol. The legislature already exempts the media from these rules to protect free speech. It should do the same with churches to preserve religious freedom...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: Jesus Christ, Registered Lobbyist | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

Brooks, Joseph • ads posted by on Craigslist saying an "Oscar award-winning composer" (for the execrable You Light Up My Life) is looking for a girl between 18 and 22 with a "new face" leads to 82 charges against, including 11 rapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

Wilkinson said that those conferences would take place as scheduled, but that "people will just have to work harder" in light of the reduced staffing. For this upcoming year, organizers expect the conferences to host 475 to 500 TFs and 30 junior faculty members, he said, as well as the newly appointed Harvard College Fellows...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bok Center Faces Deep Budget Cuts | 6/25/2009 | See Source »

Lots of people, adults and kids, are watching in the room with me. On the screen, Gandalf the Grey returns to the Fellowship as Gandalf the White. He casts a blinding white light, his face hidden behind a halo. Someone blurts out, "Imam zaman e?!" (Is it the Imam?!) It is a reference, of course, to the white-bearded Ayatullah Khomeini, who is respectfully called Imam Khomeini. But "Imam" is at the same time a title of the Mahdi, a messianic figure that Muslims believe will come to save true believers from powerful evildoers at the time of the apocalypse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watching The Lord of the Rings in Tehran | 6/25/2009 | See Source »

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