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...city's Teachers Training Institute, for example, pro-rector Makhmud Kerimov says attendance is down. Until December it was around 80%. Then one morning, apparently in retaliation for an attack on a Russian armored personnel carrier 2 km away, Russian forces opened fire on the college. On and off for two and half hours they strafed the building - targeting kids who tried to make a break for safety, Kerimov says, and killing five outstanding students. An investigation was opened, which then lapsed. Now he and his colleagues no longer feel they can urge students to come to class. Without pausing...
...Antonio, Texas, the son of Mexican immigrants, he found the church to be a refuge. "The parish was the only institution in the city where we felt fully at home," he recalls, "fully free to express ourselves in our own language, our singing, our festivities, our worship." As rector of his city's historic San Fernando Cathedral for 12 years, Elizondo became a leader in bringing Mexican religious customs and traditions into the Catholic service. His annual Christmas posada, for example, re-enacts the pilgrimage of Mary and Joseph, with the couple trekking through the neighborhood and being turned away...
...Cruz's case, may yet be haunted by the questions raised by the pending execution. Just as Bill Clinton showed himself to be "a new Democrat" when he bared his law enforcement chops and flew home to oversee the 1992 execution of brain-damaged Arkansas inmate Rickey Ray Rector, George W. Bush is currently confronted with an opportunity to demonstrate his compassion by stepping in and granting Cruz a reprieve. If he doesn't - and all indicators say he won't - he may be answering questions about this case long after the November elections have come and gone...
...some gay-rights advocates have threatened to abandon their denominations, and the specter of full-blown schism looms in the future. Even in the bosom of the relatively unruffled Episcopal Church, whose representatives will meet in Denver on July 14, the issue can wreak havoc. When a Seattle-area rector told his 300-person Episcopal congregation some time ago that he was a celibate gay, 100 of them walked...
...home to a Russia that was radically altered. While he had been tasting the ways of the West, his country had roiled through the reversals of perestroika. Moscow Center's talent spotters took no interest in him, and he was given a low-rent KGB "cover" job assisting the rector at his old Leningrad university, a position normally reserved for a retiring agent. He was unsure how he fit into the new order, says a close aide. Worse, says Polokhov, who met him again in 1990, Putin was "hurt that the state did not want him anymore." Polokhov says Putin...