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...funds own to quit offering contraceptives or abortion services. Aquinas joined other investors in petitioning executives at Disney and Best Buy until both companies took steps to closely monitor products that could allegedly provoke faithlessness (such as films critical of religion) or harmful behavior in consumers (like those violent video games), according to former Aquinas Funds president Frank Rauscher, who launched its advocacy program in July 1994 and led it until July...
...think that the word crazy brings all kinds of connotations to people. We feel that the mentally ill are violent, and some of them are when they're not in treatment. However, mentally ill people are more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators of violence. The other myth is that somehow, this is a by-product of bad parenting. The research shows is that mental illness has a genetic component. So it's more a DNA thing than a parenting thing, although there are environmental factors and triggers, and stress triggers and trauma triggers and drug...
...another attack on the citizens of Western countries that have a military presence in the Middle East. There is a lot of talk about winning the war on terrorism, but we will never win such a battle. An endless stream of people are willing to commit suicide in violent acts for a cause that has been made absolutely clear to us: forcing us out of the Middle East. Yet we parrot phrases like "They want to destroy our way of life" and "They hate our freedom." We are the worst kind of trespassers, with no legitimate business in Middle Eastern...
However, the second suspect, identified as Emilio Rosa, 38, of Jamaica Plain, proved to be more violent and elusive than his alleged partner-in-crime...
...detective, following in close pursuit, accosted Rosa a second time, and another violent encounter occured...