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...Peter King, security adviser to presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, on the state of Islam in the U.S. King later said his comment--made as he was talking about too many Americans sympathizing with radical Islamists and not enough Muslim leaders cooperating with law enforcement--was taken out of context...
When terrorists kill hundreds of Americans in a Saudi Arabian compound, an élite team of fbi agents led by Jamie Foxx flies in to collar the perps. Director Peter Berg cannily hypes the tension and the sentiment in the only one of the current Middle East political movies designed to appeal to the action crowd. Hard truths are absorbed while stuff blows...
...this may not represent the thinking of the majority of Anglicans or, certainly, conservative firebrands like Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria. And in New Orleans, the Episcopal Bishops, in a near-unanimous voice vote, essentially confirmed what they had said less formally on other occasions: They rejected the notion of Communion involvement in the bishops they choose, promised to "exercise restraint by not consenting" to non-celibate gay bishops and pledged not to approve prayers to bless gay couples...
Ahmadinejad has failed in the one area where he actually does have some authority: reforming the sluggish oligopoly that is the Iranian domestic economy. There have been riots over the rising price of gasoline. His political future is shaky. And yet this strange little man who brings to mind Peter Sellers more readily than Adolf Hitler - Sellers playing one of his brilliantly befogged simpletons - occasioned a classic, free-range American outrage festival, in which everyone, even Hillary Clinton, happily granted him exactly the opprobrium he desired...
...this weekend, we happened to play very badly.” No Harvard player finished in the top 20. Shuman’s three rounds of 75, 70, and 72 gave him the team’s highest individual finish—a four-way tie for 33rd. Sophomore Peter Singh finished tied for 64th with a performance of 15 over par. The McLaughlin took place on the Bethpage State Park Red Course, which plays a length of 6,695 yards. Still, the Red is overshadowed by its more famous neighbor, Bethpage Black, so difficult that most amateurs have reason...