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...That controversy might have blown over - allegations of patronage politics are nothing new in a country that often seems still to be feeling the long hangover from Marcos' kleptocracy - if not for a concurrent scandal allegedly involving payouts to lawmakers. On Oct. 15, a provincial governor - and former parish priest - said that he and other lawmakers had been handed paper bags full of cash during an Oct. 11 breakfast meeting at the presidential palace. The administration has denied the money came from Arroyo. Two weeks after the alleged handouts, the country's League of Provinces, a lobbying group of governors...
...When I asked Eric afterwards about the religious background that enabled him to engage in a fairly articulate debate about the merits of Repent America’s assertions, he explained that he grew up wanting to be a Catholic priest but began studying other religions, from paganism and masonry to the “sex mysteries of Isis and alchemies of Horus.” “What is your religion now?” I asked, tentatively. “I’m a Thelemite,” Eric said. Of course he was. Apparently, there...
...they can judge only by what they have at hand.” Before Dowd’s speech, Alex S. Jones, the director of Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, awarded the third annual David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism to Washington Post reporter Dana Priest. In 2005, Priest broke the story about secret CIA prisons in Thailand, Afghanistan, and Eastern Europe used to interrogate terror suspects. After winning a Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2006, she co-wrote a story earlier this year detailing the neglect of veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center...
...then there's Dumbledore himself. Sure, he's heroic. His twinkling eyes, his flowing manteau, his unfailing wisdom--Rowling made it impossible not to revere him. But here is a gay man as desexed as any priest--and, to uncomfortably extend the analogy, whose greatest emotional bond is with an adolescent boy: scarred, orphaned, needy Harry. Rowling said that in her conception of his character, Dumbledore had fallen in love with Gellert Grindelwald long ago, when the two were just teenagers. But Grindelwald turned out to be evil--Rowling's Hitler, in fact--which apparently broke Dumbledore's heart...
...Kamenetz: The dreams of Jacob or Joseph in the Bible are unmediated religious experience, and both Judaism and Christianity preserved mystical dream traditions. But direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest. Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled...