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Following the grand jury's decision, federal prosecutors said they will look into possibly bringing charges against Banuelos for civil rights violations. Still, the incident has left raw feelings in the community. "These people had no right to be here," says Melvin La Follette, a retired Episcopal priest and head of a Redford citizens group opposing the military's presence. "We were going blithely about our business, not knowing that Congress had handed away the civil rights of the people on the border." Former Marine Corporal Mark Otto, 27, who has served in surveillance missions in the border areas near...
MARIA DO CARMO GERONIMO, 126 PROOF: Baptismal record issued by the Roman Catholic Church. BRUSH WITH HISTORY: Her back bears scars from her 19th century slave master in Brazil. VICE: Only her priest knows. ODDS: The sentimental favorite, but she's never been able to sway the judges in the past...
...encouraged a belief in the ineluctability of karma and the idea that evil suffered is evil deserved. "The idea of karma goes very deep in this society, and I think that was part of the mentality of the Khmer Rouge when they were massacring people," said Francois Ponchaud, a priest who first went to Cambodia in 1965. "They believed their victims had made errors, political errors, and that killing them would allow them to be reborn as better people in their next lives." Pol Pot has admitted to some mistakes in the period from...
...show was yanked off the air in Dallas, but he can take solace in being the King of All Czech Media. According to Variety, Soukrome Neresti (translation: Private Vices) tied for the Audience Award at the prestigious Karlovy Vary film festival. Its co-winner was a drama about a priest. At last, some positive images of Americans abroad...
...amiable professionalism. A primary reason for the church's business triumphs, says University of Washington sociologist Stark, is that it has no career clerics, only amateurs who have been plucked for service from successful endeavors in other fields. (In fact, there is no ordained clergy whatsoever: the term priest applies to all males over age 12 in good standing in the church, and "bishops," while supervising congregations, are part-time lay leaders.) Religious observers point out that this creates a vacuum of theological talent in a church with a lot of unusual theology to explain. But the benefit, notes Stark...