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...saying "It's time we asked Americans to be patriotic about something other than war." Former Nevada Senator Alan Bible said, "We labor long and earnestly for peace because war threatens the survival of man. It is time we labored with equal passion to defend our environment." Mary Wear, Arlington, Texas...
...Theocracy: what many conservative Christians saw was that the boardroom, not the sanctuary, was Republican hallowed ground. When their interests clashed with the G.O.P. business wing, the money talked: concerns about persecution of Christians in China, disgust with Internet pornography, alarms about global warming, respect for workers' right to wear religious clothing, would not translate into policies that might inconvenience American business...
...consular official at an embassy in Caracas, asking to remain anonymous for fear of jeopardizing efforts to repatriate prisoners. Indeed, with no visiting rooms and few guards in sight, visitors must give inmates a small tip to fetch the prisoner they've come to see. Forget uniforms; prisoners wear the street clothes of their choice, though they are not supposed to wear dark colors that can hide blood spots. When inmates' girlfriends come to visit, they go straight to the cells, which they are free to use as a love shack...
...many people in the Western world mistakenly perceive it as an expression of powerlessness and oppression. And increasingly it is being turned into a political tool. Modernity is not about dress codes. Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive. In Jordan, a woman cannot be forced to wear a veil against her will...
...many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people. In Jordan, for example, a woman cannot be forced to wear a veil against her will...