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...there are times when France's adhesion to secularity seems to generate the same prejudice it's supposed to prevent. On Friday, it was revealed that the nation's highest administrative authority has denied a woman's naturalization application on the grounds that she's effectively too Muslim...
...Letters shows a woman who has, like an older version of Anne Frank, retained her faith in humanity against all the evidence, and whose love for her family supports her. Her deep sense of faith has also sustained her. "I am in communication with God, Jesus and the Virgin every day," she writes. Which is not to say that Betancourt did not suffer mightily. "Morning overcast, like my spirit," she opens. "My beloved and divine Mamita [her pet name for her mother] of my heart...Every day I pray to God to bless you, to care for you, protect...
...Indu ren?” asked one woman to our guide at a jewelry store, wondering if we were from India. “Bushi, women shi meiguoren,” I automatically said, telling her we were American. Taken aback, she scampered away laughing, and stood in a far corner with her friends, pointing and whispering...
...Serenity frenzy, if one may call it that, is not unique. In May the Religion News Services ran a similar article about the devotional poem "Footprints" ("One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord..."). The RNS recorded that the son of a woman named Mary Stevenson brought suit in May against two women he claimed were inappropriately claiming authorship of the poem, which he said his mother had written in the 1930s and copyrighted in 1984. He asserted that the women had each received more than a million dollars in royalties for its use. Neither...
...Betancourt's biggest problem ahead could be this: Nelson Mandela emerged from 27 years in jail in 1990 with his huge political movement intact and a nation to run. Mandela's leadership was unquestioned. In stark contrast Betancourt has emerged as a lone woman with no political constituency and no clear home, geographically or politically. (She has apparently also left her husband in Bogota, after giving him a perfunctory hug the day she was freed.) That outsider status is familiar ground for Betancourt, who was raised not among the poor masses, as Mandela was, but as an aristocratic expatriate...