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...remarry in the Catholic Church, you must have your first marriage annulled, or wiped away, as if it never happened. That can be personally wrenching, particularly if the first marriage resulted in children. With Rentapriest, you get the same familiar language, the same comforting ritual, minus the formal sanction of the Vatican. For some, the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks, says Haggett. "We?ve been told that for many people it?s more important to be married by someone who has been anointed by God, rather than by a justice of the peace," she says. "This way, people can have...
...FileOpen's code--potentially driving it out of business. CEO Sanford Bingham spent hours on the phone to Moscow in vain. "If they were doing this with credit cards, nobody would have any qualms about seeing this guy in jail," he says. "Ultimately there has to be a legal sanction...
...list of names, and organizers intend to leave plenty of space for future additions. Parvez Imroz of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons says the memorial will allow relatives a focal point for their grief. "They can offer fateha (prayers)," he says. "The memorial will become an emotional sanction for them...
...students weren't really learning anything. The House, worried about establishing a national curriculum, allows states to opt out of NAEP and use different exams for comparison. But with no national benchmark, it will be much harder for the feds to monitor the quality of state exams-and to sanction states that make their tests too easy...
...What's novel about the Bush education plan is that for the first time the federal government will sanction schools that fail to show progress. But what is progress, and how much is enough? Under the House bill, states would have 12 years to raise all students to proficiency in reading and math. The scores of blacks, latinos and low-income students would be separately tallied and would also have to rise-but states could determine on their own what "adequate yearly progress" is. Yet even with this flexibility many are worried that too many of the nation's schools...