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Individual hearings began for more than 460 children taken from a polygamist sect accused of sexual abuse. The custody case, considered the largest in U.S. history, is expected to cost more than $1.5 million a month in housing and medical fees; two teens have given birth in the state's care, although both turned out to be over the age of consent. Officials say they hope to reunite the families but not before parents attend psychological counseling and parenting classes. Lawyers for the parents argue that such plans fail to resolve whether the children will be able to return...
...does not require a foreign country to commit terrorist acts on American soil.' WILLIE JESSOP, an elder of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, in a letter to President Bush about the raid on the church's Texas compound last month, saying the separation of the polygamist sect's children from their parents is a "terrorist...
...Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa, or head of the Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, sat at his ease in a throne-like overstuffed chair, rimless rectangular glasses perched on his pleasantly round, shaven head, a yellow shirt peeking out from underneath a dark red robe, feet in pebbled brown loafers. Reputedly stern, the Karmapa, who spent half an hour with TIME, was both remarkably well-tempered and focused for a man who had just come off a 14-hour flight - by far his longest since he arrived in India eight years ago as a teenager after a swashubuckling escape...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was at pains to stress his new non-sectarian attitude when addressing Iraqi parliamentarians Monday. "The events of the past weeks have proven that we are neutral, not biased, that we did not take the side of this party or this sect against another," said Maliki, whose government has waged a two-month crackdown on the militia of onetime ally Moqtada al-Sadr. "We have also proven there is no security for any sect unless other sects can be guaranteed their security...
...their traditional mountain stronghold in the Chouf. It was reported that some Druze supporters of the Hizballah coalition even switched sides in the battles to join Jumblatt's men against the Shi'ites of Hizballah - politics suddenly taking a backseat to deeper feelings of loyalty to the clan and sect and unity against the outsider. "We are believers in peace and co-existence, but we will not accept any aggression against us," said Shawki Zeidan, a veteran Druze militia commander who led some 300 fighters against Hizballah on a 6,000-foot-high mountain ridge in the southern Chouf...