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...Jose Mercury News's series about the crack-contra link, there shouldn't have been. Gary Webb's stories were seriously flawed, but so were the stories those papers produced in an attempt to debunk him. All three, to a greater or lesser extent, committed the same journalistic sin for which they indicted the Mercury News: playing up evidence that Webb was wrong while burying proof to the contrary...
Blair is unapologetic. "It is not a sin to want to be elected," he says. "Unless you're elected, you can't do a damn thing for anybody." Those who seek office, he knows, aren't shy about accommodating reality, and the realities have changed rapidly in Britain. Large chunks of the old working class have advanced into the middle class. Union membership, the bedrock Labour constituency, has dropped from 53% in 1980 to 32% in 1994. Many voters who once cast their ballots for Labour on the basis of a tribal instinct to support their similarly situated comrades floated...
...became persuaded it was not...something voluntary," he said, "not something you embraced, it was the way you were born. If it's the way you were born then it ceases to be a sin, and then one's whole theological and moral perspective shifts, and then you begin to view the problem entirely differently, and that's what happened...
...husband Torvald, in which McTeer (helped by Frank McGuinness's vigorous translation) stunningly conveys a woman whose eyes--and mind--are suddenly opening. "No man sacrifices his integrity for the person he loves," protests Torvald, after Nora says she expected him to take the blame if her past sin were revealed. "Hundreds of thousands of women have!" she replies in a fierce half whisper that has the clarity of a thunderclap...
...Naturally it's in Siberia, near the isolated town of Minusinsk. According to reports in the Russian press, Vissarion is a former traffic cop who was fired for drinking. In his public appearances, he speaks of "the coming end" and instructs believers that suicide is not a sin. Russian authorities are worried that he may urge his followers on a final binge. In the former Soviet lands, law enforcement has handled cults in the old Russian way, with truncheons and bars. Some have been banned. Last year a court in Kiev gave prison terms to leaders of the White Brotherhood...