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...scary part is that in some of the countries like China, India, and Russia, HIV infection is rapidly on the rise,” D’Souza says with a grim face. “We know what’s happened in Africa and you don’t want the same thing to be repeated in the developing countries...
Wilder was born in what is now Poland in 1906. His writing career first began in Berlin in the late 1920s. After writing as a journalist for the German tabloids, Wilder turned to screenplays. During the rise of Hitler, Wilder, who was Jewish, fled from Berlin to Paris. When he left Paris for the United States in 1933, he landed fortuitously in Hollywood...
...This tax, as it applies to student groups, is unfair and counterproductive. For starters, the tax—which is five percent this year and will rise to 15 percent in two years—applies to withdrawals of donations made before the announcement of the tax. Donors who intended for all of their money to go to a student group would have had portions of their money siphoned off by FAS. Although the University does not guarantee that all the money will go to a group when it receives a gift, this practice is disingenuous...
...Southern Baptist Convention. Until today Conservatism followed Orthodoxy?s legal lead, based in part on the biblical injunction that ?You shall not lie with a man as with a woman.? But many Conservative congregations have openly gay members, and pro-gay-rights sentiment is on the rise, especially among younger Jews. At the branch?s largest teaching body, the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, a group called Keshet has been handing out buttons demanding ?Ordination Regardless of Orientation...
...example of a war crime, but Natonski disagreed. As the senior officer responsible for deciding how to handle the case, he cleared the Marine, saying the Iraqi used an insurgent's "common tactic" when he concealed his left arm behind his head and "feigned death." Insurgents would often then "rise to continue fighting." In what many sources say what a move related to Haditha but not publicly explained, last spring Natonski removed three officers after the incident because he had "lost confidence" in them. The three have not been charged...