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...Watching practice is all well and good, of course, but actual tickets were the hottest thing going: Kansas fans Tim Ballew, 30, and wife Heidi, 27, spent $3,000 for two seats on the floor four rows behind one basket. They were there to root for the Jayhawks and celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary. Not everyone was lucky enough to line up tickets ahead of time: Saturday morning, folks stood in the pouring rain buying and selling and trying to look inconspicuous. Some fans ate worms and literally got in bed with snakes and rats to win tickets from...
...enormity of the scandal has provoked American Roman Catholics as nothing has before to call for debate on controversial doctrines--like celibacy, married priests, women priests. The Rev. Richard McBrien, a religion professor at the University of Notre Dame, thinks these issues lie at the root of the pedophile problem. The Boston archdiocese's official paper last week urged Roman Catholics to question and study whether these age-old tenets are still relevant. Liberal advocates argue that a church struggling to fill its depleted ranks of priests might get more healthy, sexually mature candidates if married men and women were...
...feel confident there is a different perspective taking root in Washington right now,” Sachs said in an interview as he traveled back from the conference last night...
...foreign policy will have to deal with the root causes of terrorism, such as poverty in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, Islamic fundamentalism and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Military might is no longer the sole arbiter; economic, diplomatic and multilateral tools now must be used to a greater degree. But the bottom line remains constant: Bush won't succeed in most major foreign policy initiatives "until there's progress made in the Middle East," Hagel concludes. "That hangs over everything like a dark cloud...
...language and moral indignation for executive leadership and started providing real, long-term solutions in the campaign against terrorism. Indeed, the Bush administration’s ever-expanding war on terrorism has become alarmingly misguided in both intent and implementation, putting American lives at risk without striking at the root cause of terrorism—the powerlessness of destitution of billions of people around the world...