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...discern what is in America’s security interest, but by one’s willingness to send American men and women into combat with little regard to the likely consequences of doing so. And instead of exposing this farce, much of the Democratic Party has chosen to whore itself out to the angry white male contingent in the United States and imperil our national security in a wasteful war in Iraq...

Author: By Eoghan W. Stafford, | Title: National Insecurity | 9/10/2003 | See Source »

...tale about the redemption of a repentant sinner. "The pattern is a common one," writes Jane Schaberg, a professor of religious and women's studies at the University of Detroit Mercy and author of last year's The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: "the powerful woman disempowered, remembered as a whore or whorish." As shorthand, Schaberg coined the term "harlotization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mary Magdalene: Saint or Sinner? | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

Ellen Turner was 48 years old when she first learned that Mary Magdalene was not a whore. Through Catholic school and a Catholic college, she attests, "I thought about her in the traditional way, as a sinner." But eight years ago, the 56-year-old technical writer tapped into a network of neo-Magdalenites through her connection with the liberal Catholic groups Call to Action and Futurechurch. The discovery that, as Turner puts it, Magdalene "got the shaft" started her thinking about how to change the situation. She was happy to find that the two organizations, which see Magdalene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mary Magdalene: Saint or Sinner? | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

...infiltrated the Real I.R.A. on behalf of the fbi and MI5. Rupert won McKevitt's trust, portraying himself as a computer expert who could help with cyberterrorism and bring in badly needed funds from the States. Rupert has made no secret of his motivations. He calls himself a "whore" when it comes to money, and he's received plenty for his services: $1.25 million during his time as a spy, and he's due some $2 million more for his testimony. With Northern Ireland's peace process in deadlock and its government in limbo, dissident republicans are trying to fill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could It Happen Again? | 8/10/2003 | See Source »

Caffeine factor: Corporate whore? Whatever, I’m awake...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Confessions of a Caffeine-a-holic | 4/24/2003 | See Source »

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