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...clearly being put to the test. The defendant, Warren Jeffs, the 51-year-old prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), was being tried as an accomplice to rape for commanding Doe to agree to an arranged marriage despite her resistance and instructing her to submit to her husband "mind, body and soul" if she was to have any hope of salvation...
...hold hands" as a first step. Jeffs instructed couples that a man should have sex with his wife only if she invites it, the defense argued, so how can Jeffs be accused of being an accomplice to rape? "Pressure to marry," Isaacson argued, "is different from pressure to submit to rape...
Massachusetts state representative Michael J. Moran unveiled a surprise two-page list of demands on Monday that he says Harvard should submit to before Boston approves University construction in Allston. Moran’s declaration calls for Harvard to establish and partially fund a K-12 school in the neighborhood by September 2009 and create a construction mitigation program, among other things. Moran said he hopes that the members of the Harvard Allston Task Force, a group of Allston residents appointed by the city to review Harvard’s plans, will recommend that the Boston Redevelopment Authority...
...Sarkozy has long understood that to a French society perpetually concerned about unemployment, economic optimism is everything. And that is why Sarkozy has advanced his reform program this way: submit to a little pain now in exchange for far more gain from freer markets in the future. The problem is that to many French voters this pay-off seems to be getting more remote. Last week news came down that a mere 3,700 jobs were created between April and June - the lowest number since 2005. That shortfall sounded even grimmer against the government's announcement in July that...
...council's June 14 revision was something of a compromise. It removed the cap on licenses, but it also made getting one more difficult. Applicants have to submit a five-year employment and educational history. The town reserves the right to determine whether any consumer complaints have been filed against applicants, to investigate any criminal and probationary record, to revoke licenses, and to impose fines of up to $100. The new statute also affirmed the right to hold psychic fairs...