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...connection between Blackwater and Christianity: "I'm a practicing Roman Catholic, but you don't have to be Catholic, you don't have to be a Christian to work for Blackwater." - Newsweek, October...
...YORK, NY – A stack of manuscripts, hundreds of them. Pages of white computer paper, formatted in that neat, double-spaced way, printed in Times New Roman. 12 point...
...devout and stoic Roman Catholic widow became the incarnation of a pious nation that had itself suffered silently through more than a decade of autocratic rule. Millions lined the funeral route and repeated her nickname as if saying the rosary: "Cory, Cory, Cory." If she had agreed to let the massive demonstrations of outrage pass in front of Malacañang Palace, said Vicente Paterno, a Marcos official who would later be her ally, "that could have toppled Marcos." But it would be nearly three years before she would learn to take advantage of her power. Instead, she concentrated...
...Brazilians in Boston are creating public-service announcements to run on Portuguese-language radio stations. The state of California is handing out maps of neighborhoods with low participation rates in the last Census so community groups can target where to knock on doors. Roman Catholic priests near the U.S.-Mexico border are readying picture books to more easily explain the process to people who don't read well or at all. The mayor of New Orleans is telling members of the Hurricane Katrina diaspora to use their old addresses - though that one isn't kosher. "The Census," says Melanie Campbell...
...Roman pub manager Leonardo Leuci has noticed an increasingly popular request from young people who step up to the bar to order a drink: "Make me something strong." Leuci spent a decade working at watering holes abroad, from France to Florida to the Bahamas, before coming back home last year to manage a locale in Rome's bustling Trastevere neighborhood. Right away, he was surprised to be seeing - and serving - so many young people whose only goal was to get sloshed. "In Italy, we don't have a drinking culture," Leuci says. "Lots of young people don't even know...