Word: sects
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...with mysteries: Did Jesus have a girlfriend? And did they have a daughter, whose descendants live today? Is the Priory of Sion an ancient covenant whose Grand Masters, including Leonardo Da Vinci and Isaac Newton, have sworn to protect this royal blood line? Is Opus Dei, the conservative Catholic sect Brown paints in such lurid colors, really that awful? Can a fictional thriller that is nothing more or less than (as one Biblical scholar called it) "a great plane read" be taken seriously as an ecclesiastical exposé? (My short answers: No, no, no, no idea...
...style than substance, and it's not clear Maliki will be very different: critics, for instance, saw Jaafari as wedded to a sectarian outlook that precluded offering greater power to the Sunnis in the hope of drawing them in, unwilling to rein in the militias associated with his own sect, and (in the case of the Kurds) hostile to a federalism that would allow the creation of de facto-independent regions. One early test will come over the next month as Maliki cobbles together a cabinet - Jaafari had favored putting members of the Shi'ite alliance in charge...
China's President isn't used to being heckled. But last Thursday, as Hu Jintao addressed reporters at the White House during his U.S. visit, a woman from a newspaper run by the meditation sect Falun Gong loudly interrupted him, calling him a "murderer" and threatening that his days were numbered. Among other allegations, Falun Gong, which is banned in China, accuses Chinese hospitals of harvesting organs from executed prisoners - including some of the sect's own members - and selling them for transplants. But Falun Gong activists aren't the only ones concerned about China's organ trade...
...appears to have become more radical since his arrest. Which perhaps isn't surprising. He joined an extremist sect. He underwent a kind of brainwashing. And he's faced hard conditions in isolation for years. Maybe it's like someone who feels they are in the middle of the sea: they hold even tighter to the buoy that got them there...
China's President isn't used to being heckled. But last Thursday, as Hu Jintao addressed reporters at the White House during his U.S. visit, a woman from a newspaper run by the meditation sect Falun Gong loudly interrupted him, calling him a "murderer" and threatening that his days were numbered. Among other allegations, Falun Gong, which is banned in China, accuses Chinese hospitals of harvesting organs from executed prisoners-including some of the sect's own members-and selling them for transplants...