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...couples acceptance, support and liturgical celebrations of love and commitment. I have been quietly celebrating such ceremonies for 18 years. Many clergy and other people in the Catholic Church and other churches would agree with me but, sadly, are silenced by a prevailing culture of fear. Pat Buckley Larne, Northern Ireland...
...future power arrangement. For the same reason, the Kurds, in particular, were hoping to have their autonomy codified before a new elected Iraqi leadership takes power in Baghdad. They had hoped to not only maintain their current functional autonomy in the territory carved out by the Coalition's Northern No-Fly Zone after the Gulf War, but also to extend it into the key oil-producing areas around Kirkuk and Mosul. In the end, all they got was a reaffirmation of the current arrangement, deferring future status to a new constitution. Analysts are expecting that Kurdish leaders...
...least the coach's escapade involved a consenting prostitute. At the center of the current storm is a 20-year-old woman who has told police that in the early hours of Feb. 22, a number of players sexually assaulted her by the pool at a resort in the northern New South Wales town of Coffs Harbour. The woman, who was taken from the resort to hospital in an ambulance, alleges the assault involved vaginal, oral and anal penetration. At press time, no charges had been laid and several unidentified players had protested their innocence. Police have appealed for witnesses...
Professor of History of Art and Architecture Hugo Van der Velden, who currently teaches about the Northern Renaissance, said while there are no courses in Southern Renaissance painting, students can take related classes...
...Australia's many untamed expanses, Arnhem Land, the vast spread of savannah, swamps and crocodile-infested rivers on the northeastern tip of the Northern Territory, remains one of the wildest. A handful of settlements dot its 95,000-sq.-km area, and the unsealed 750-km road that crosses it is passable only in the dry season. When anthropologist Donald Thomson, whose writings on this enigmatic region will be republished this month in Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land (Miegunyah Press; 264 pages), arrived there just 70 years ago, it was also feared by many whites, who had heard stories...