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church •54% of weekly worshippers at say the use of torture is "often" or "sometimes" justified, an opinion held by only 42% of those who rarely or never attend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...outfield before the Dodgers ever see a rebate. Yes, the Dodgers don't have to pay Ramirez during his suspension, which will cost him some $8 million in salary. But they were never permitted to add a contract clause giving the team the right to void the deal if, say, Ramirez used performance-enhancing drugs. Section 8.L of Major League Baseball's Joint Drug Agreement, a testing and penalty program collectively bargained between the players and owners, states: "All authority to discipline Players for violations of the Program shall repose with the Commissioner's office. No Club may take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Dodgers Get a Refund on Manny Ramirez? | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...say that Kemp sought to build bridges across racial lines solely for political gain, would ignore much of his 73 years. After growing up in largely white LA of the 1940s, he confronted racial prejudice as a young professional quarterback playing games occasionally in the Jim Crow South. When his (then) Los Angeles Chargers traveled to Houston for a 1960 game, the team had to stay at University of Houston dorms because no hotels would accept black players. Kemp joined other teammates in bolting a movie theater that restricted black members to the balcony. Four years later, Kemp arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jack Kemp: Running a Very Different Republican Race | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...wholeheartedly that Republicans could and had to win over blacks. "For Jack, it wasn't a political tactic," recalled his campaign manager, Wayne Berman, who accompanied Kemp that fall to inner-city communities from South Central Los Angeles to the South Side of Chicago. "It was real. He'd say, 'We're going to change minds.'" (Read the TIME Cover Story: "Dole, Kemp and the G.O.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jack Kemp: Running a Very Different Republican Race | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...three leaders fit the stereotype of the African "Big Man," having seized and maintained power by force. Each one, Transparency International alleges, has also used his position to enrich himself. That, French foreign-policy specialists say, has been done with the complicity and connivance of successive French governments maintaining the traditional Françafrique policy of retaining influence among former colonies. French lawyers for each of the leaders have flatly refuted the allegations. In Gabon - where Bongo is in temporary seclusion to mourn the death of his wife - government spokesman Alain Akouala Atipault assured that "there's nothing concrete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Enrichment of Africa's French Allies | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

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