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With Washington reeling from the Abramoff lobbying scandal and Republicans and Democrats alike pledging to crack down on influence peddling, with one lawmaker already gone from Capitol Hill because he traded favors for cash, you're probably guessing this isn't the best time for members of Congress to dispense a fortune in favors to their friends...
...along with 13 other prelates from around the world; by Pope Benedict XVI, who said he wanted to "reflect the universality of the church"; in Vatican City. O'Malley and Levada, the former bishops of Boston and San Francisco, respectively, played key roles in responding to the clergy abuse scandal...
...also happens to be home to Raffaele Guariniello, Italy's most expert and aggressive prosecutor of alleged doping scofflaws, who was bound to pounce on any hint of an infraction. "You need criminal justice. It gives you investigative means," Guariniello told Time, in his first public comments since the scandal broke. "Sports officials can't do searches, tap phones, sequester material." And thus the suspicion of athletes altering their body chemistry became something like an antiterrorist campaign. For two more days, plainclothes Caribinieri agents went up in the Alps, hunting for any signs of Mayer. "We never saw him with...
...strange aftermath of the Danish cartoon scandal, the most insightful and incisive critique of the affair and the subsequent reaction came from within the Muslim world itself. Jordanian journalist Jihad Momani, in a piece for the Jordanian tabloid al-Shihan—for which Momani has been subsequently vilified—posed the following question: “What brings more prejudice against Islam, these caricatures or pictures of a hostage taker slashing the throat of his victim in front of the cameras, or a suicide bomber who blows himself up during a wedding ceremony...
...Shiite majority. Shiites in Iraq, as well as world-wide, have a rare opportunity to disassociate themselves in the eyes of the international community from the ceaseless violence of their Sunni counterparts. One of the key revelations of the Muslim world’s reaction to the cartoon scandal was that many in the Muslim community are deeply frustrated by the West’s perception of the religion and its followers as a source of violent behavior. The recent Sunni bombings in Iraq, then, provide a crucial opportunity for peaceful Muslim’s to promote sympathy with their...