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...looked so promising. Mass hysteria kicked off on March 5 when Jackson made a rare public appearance in London to announce the series. "I love you so much," he said in a three-minute speech before a crowd of 2,000 people. "I'll be performing the songs my fans want to hear. This is the final curtain call." That prompted an online frenzy, with 360,000 people registering applications before the ticket office even opened. When tickets ranging from $75 to $115 went on sale the next morning, fans snapped them up at a rate...
...Church uses to lobby the legislature are already registered with OSE. In its defense, OSE says it wants transparency, but it’s hard to miss 3,500 people standing in front of the state Capitol. The legislature already exempts the media from these rules to protect free speech. It should do the same with churches to preserve religious freedom...
Lobbying rules like these stifle speech of all faiths. Clergy fear voicing their views on legislation if it means opening their books to investigation. OSE says it looks at only the portion of church finances dedicated to lobbying. But to distinguish that portion is impossible. Do we count the homily, the bulletin, the prayer group? State Representative Chris Caruso, an unsympathetic Catholic, chides the Church to “Give unto Caesar, what is Caesar’s.” But the Church’s everyday finances are none of Caesar’s business...
...reserved much of its vitriol for Britain. "The diplomats who have talked to us with courtesy up to now have in the past few days taken the masks away from their faces and are showing their true image," Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, said in a speech on June 19. "And the most evil of them is the British government." (See pictures of the lasting influence of Ayatullah Khomeini...
...reinforced earlier this week when the Council of Europe released a draft report saying that shortcomings in the country's justice system "are reason for concern" and that some cases "give rise to concerns that the fight against 'legal nihilism' launched by President Dmitri Medvedev [in his inauguration speech] is still far from...