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...investigation ultimately lies with the lead prosecutor, not with police. On Tuesday afternoon, Portugal's attorney general, Fernando Pinto Monteiro, said in a statement that the case continues to be assessed. The final report from the police has been delivered to the public prosecutors and "will be the object of careful analysis and consideration" before a final ruling is made. He said the case would remain covered by judicial secrecy laws until mid-August...
This is good news for the survival of the Communion and bad news for the resolution of its tensions. It may slow down the defection of conservative Episcopal parishes, but probably won't stop it. It is also an object lesson for anyone who believes predictions of rapid change in a Communion whose strength former Archbishop Desmond Tutu reportedly described thusly: "We meet...
...ghosts of the past have an enduring power in Nicaragua, which is why the legendary nationalist guerrilla general Augusto Sandino has become the object of a political tug-of-war between the government and its naysayers. Sandino died in 1934, but his mantle - and iconic sombrero - has long been claimed by the Sandinista Front, which overthrew the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in 1979. The Sandinistas, of course, are back in power under President Daniel Ortega, but a group of old-school Sandinista revolutionaries charge that Ortega has betrayed the movement's leftist principles - and they want Sandino...
...opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in Bhegedhe, a village of mud huts and mopani trees in eastern Zimbabwe's Buhera district. Moyo, 45, was walking home from a friend's house one Saturday evening in May, he says, when "I was struck in the back by a heavy object and fell down. I woke up two days later at Birchenough Bridge hospital." Moyo's wife Tendai, 37, had found him bleeding and unconscious in the road and taken him to hospital on an oxcart. Both his legs and his back were broken, and his spinal cord was partly severed...
...purged. Morgenstern emphasizes that clutter doesn't have to be messy. "A perfectly organized closet or drawer is clutter if it is filled with clothes that you haven't worn for years," she says. And clutter doesn't have to be made of stuff. "It can be any obsolete object, space, commitment or behavior that weighs you down or distracts you or saps your energy," she says. "It can be bad habits that take up too much time...