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DIED Some nights he was Frank Sinatra, other nights he was Anita Baker, but Danny Gans, 52, a Las Vegas Strip impressionist and singer, always entertained his adoring fans. Five nights a week, 46 weeks a year, Gans crooned comedic songs to Sin City visitors...
...laptop the pages of a first-grade primer distributed in private religious schools. "A is for Allah," he reads. "B is for bandook, or gun." T, for thakrau, collision, is illustrated with a drawing of the World Trade Center in flames, while Z, for zenoub, the plural of sin, is depicted with alcohol bottles, kites, guitars, drums, a television and a chess set. Any attempt to change the religious curriculum is met with fierce resistance. "Many fear that to be seen protesting against the extremists who are pushing Shari'a [Islamic law] would be seen as protesting against Islam itself...
...number of lines in the book about how God needs man to sin so he can punish him. That's an interesting concept, could you speak a little bit about that? I had just done this hideous radio interview in Berlin for German public radio. At one point, I meant to say "Sieht so aus als haettest du all dein Deutsch vergessen," which means "I guess I've forgotten so much German." Only I misconjugated the verb vergessen to vergast, and when I came out of the interview, the publicist was a furious with me. Vergast is the past tense...
...Feeling apart, alien, inferior, Terry was drawn to "Jimmy Preston, who was a real boy, and whom I envied; Jimmy Preston, who once put his hand on my shoulder, and I didn't want him to remove it." Homosexuality was not just a sin to Catholics; in Britain it was a crime. (Davies cites the condemnation of a judge about to sentence two gay men: "Not only have you committed an act of gross indecency, but you did it under one of London's most beautiful bridges.") But the need to be with another man was too strong to resist...
...moral arguments against both cap-and-trade schemes are ubiquitous. A recent denunciation comes from Father Paul Mayer, co-founder of the Climate Crisis Coalition. Last month, he suggested that any continued pollution of the atmosphere is a sin: How can evil emitters be given the option of buying the right to sin from other groups—most likely struggling developing countries who bear little to no blame for the problem? Images of 16th-century Catholic indulgence policies come to mind...