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Malachy senior was a tender father at times, and a dazzling storyteller, but he was dominated by his addiction to alcohol and eventually all but abandoned the family. At 11, McCourt became their principal source of income, stealing and working odd jobs. Although he quit school, he continued to read...
The day I arrive to see Mazoz's project at work, four local girls are performing a short play about the birth of Islam. Playing the part of a queen is 11-year-old Ikram Malki. Her eyes flutter under a thick coat of turquoise eye shadow; on her head...
The brief document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the orthodoxy office that Benedict personally led before becoming Pope, defends Sobrinho's "pastoral delicacy" and leaves no wiggle room on the standing of the family and doctors who carried out the abortion. "Formal cooperation in an abortion...
Even the touchy subject of fishing rights could be overcome. Iceland has long jealously guarded the sovereignty of the lucrative, 200-mile (320-km) fishing zone around the island. Fish and seafood account for 37% of Iceland's exports, and employ 8% of the work force; even ardent Euro-enthusiasts...
But even some of those who back the ban think the government is taking it too far. In Istanbul's busy waterfront Tophane district, popular for its nargile - or water pipe - cafés, dozens of patrons sit on candy-colored beanbags, puffing on glass pipes, impervious to the impending...