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...Benedict XVI in a Nazi SS uniform, following disclosures that he had served briefly in the Hitler Youth. Italy prohibits publicly insulting religion - but whether the law protects Islam hasn't been tested. To many Muslims in Europe, that's a particular rub. Laws touted as evenhanded appear to tilt in favor of the home team. Dutch film director Theo van Gogh, before he was murdered by a radical Islamist in Amsterdam, was a poster boy for unconditional free speech. He said Muslims had sex with goats and that a Jewish writer with whom he disagreed had erotic dreams about...
...continue an upward trend that began with a pair of wins last weekend, it will have affirmed its position in a four-team championship hunt. If it loses, the Crimson (7-11, 3-2) will return from its road trip, which also includes a tilt tomorrow with league doormat Penn (3-15, 1-4), without any real hope for its fourth title of the 21st century. According to head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, though, no one contest is that crucial. “We can’t think in terms of that,” she said...
...back to its winning ways. On Friday night at Lavietes Pavilion, that remedy came in the form of the Columbia Lions. Led by the freshman trio of Katie Rollins, Emma Moretzsohn and Emily Tay, Harvard coasted to an 86-63 thrashing of Columbia in a home league tilt. It was the first action for the Crimson since a heartbreaking last-second defeat against Brown earlier in the week, but Harvard seemed to have little trouble bouncing back and disposing of the Lions (4-14, 0-5) for the 40th time in 41 all-time tries. The Crimson relied...
...Tilt To The Right The Conservative victory was due in part to disenchantment with the Liberals. But under the deft hand of Tory tacticians, Harper morphed from the scary image drawn by his rivals before the June 2004 vote into a middle-of-the-road politician. And his party's minority status should ensure that he won't venture too far from the center of Canadian politics--at least for the life of the coming Parliament...
...chasm exists between big cities and God's country. "This whole red-state-- blue-state thing is absurd," he says. "The film has performed amazingly in Little Rock, Birmingham and Fort Worth, Texas. The fact is, Americans are Americans. There may be places where their politics in the aggregate tilt one way or the other, but do you cross a state boundary and turn into some other kind of animal? No. Americans talk to each other. Americans are listening to each other. And Brokeback is proving...