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...Married Ronnie Spector, lead singer of the Ronettes, with whom he reportedly had a very unhealthy relationship. According to an in-depth 2003 Vanity Fair article, he would often have her call while touring and leave the phone off the hook so that he could fall asleep listening to her breathe. His jealousy was epic. Spector made his estate into a fortress - barbed wire, electric fences - kept a glass-topped coffin in the basement for Ronnie ("so I can keep an eye on her after she's dead") and forced her to take a Phil Spector mannequin with her when...
...fiercely secular nation, France has always had an awkward relationship with religious groups. Officials often find themselves struggling to strike the delicate balance between maintaining church-state separation and honoring the right of citizens to express their faith. But in the current case against the U.S.-based Church of Scientology, authorities have abandoned their usual attempts at fine-tuning religion's standing in French society - instead, they want to ban Scientology from France altogether...
...Much of the change is generational - an acknowledgment by younger blacks and Hispanics that their parents' adversarial relationship makes less sense in the more genuinely multiracial society the U.S. has become. "You look at President Obama and Judge Sotomayor, and you don't just see a black and a Hispanic but also Columbia and Harvard and Princeton and Yale," says Morial, who attended Tuesday's White House ceremony announcing Sotomayor's selection, referring to the universities Obama and Sotomayor attended. "You see two beneficiaries of civil rights representing a new generation that no longer sees their two communities as competing...
...speech on Tuesday at a Beijing conference on climate change, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that global warming "is a game changer in the U.S.-China relationship." For the California Democrat's relationship with China, it already has been. She has gone from being one of the most officially reviled public figures in China to someone who is tolerated, if not exactly celebrated. (Watch TIME's video "Olympic Torch: Back on Chinese Soil...
...budget using conservative oil price estimates. What we're seeing right now is an effort to clean up the mess." And what analysts will be eyeing with increased interest in coming months is whether the differences over the budget mark a new stage in Russia's most important political relationship: the one between Medvedev and Putin...