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...Spain, for the moment, is where the battle rages fiercest. The Socialist - led government will allow homosexuals to marry and adopt children; the Church has called on Spanish Catholics to fight the legislation. Javier Garcia, 40, who wants to marry his Brazilian partner, Mario Almeida, thinks the Church's opposition is wrongheaded. Both men are Roman Catholic. "Most Christians think homosexuals should be able to get married," he says. Indeed, polls show that some 60% of Spaniards support legalizing gay marriage, and around 250,000 couples are awaiting the new law, which will be debated in parliament in the next...
Club officials apparently hoped to praise staff members Mario Metullus and Herbert Campbell for rummaging through a dumpster to retrieve a member’s wayward piece of jewelry (which better have been the Hope Diamond). But in an ill-conceived posting on the club’s website, somebody who should have known better placed the heading, “Dumpster Diving,” over a picture of the two conspicuously African American employees...
...debate, was a micro-history of the entire campaign. Kerry offered a labyrinthine answer. He was against abortion (as a Catholic) before he was for it (as a public servant). This is known in political circles as the Cuomo dodge--pioneered by former New York Governor Mario Cuomo in the 1980s, unsatisfying to this day. "I believe you can take that position and not be pro-abortion," Kerry said, and Bush actually had a terrific facial reaction--a combination of Are you kidding me? and Huh? "Trying to decipher that," the President responded. "We're not going to spend federal...
APPLICATIONS: Expect many new games, including ones with familiar faces like Mario and James Bond. Game Boy Advance titles are also compatible...
...says Branson. No sign yet of this tycoon slowing down. Tough Competition In her confirmation hearings before the European Parliament last week, Neelie Kroes, the E.U.'s incoming antitrust chief, described herself as "a tough girl." She'd better be, if she's to take over from Competition Commissioner Mario Monti in November. Huge cases loom, including one with Coca-Cola, and legal and political challenges by software behemoth Microsoft, which Monti fined a record €497 million in March for allegedly abusing its dominant market position. Plus, the European Court of First Instance seems intent on rolling back Monti...