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VIRGINIA TECH'S THROTTLING of Miami on Nov. 1 ensured another
controversial year for the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), college
football's method of picking…
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More and more, even casual NBA fans are tuning into the
LeBron-a-thon as the ready-made star finally takes his game to the
hardwood and not just Madison…
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Knee tendinitis and persistent criticism didn't keep rap star Sean
Combs, called "P. Diddy" in the hip-hop community, from completing
the New York City…
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THE BANE OF BLAINE FELL MAINLY ON THE PLAINS-and spread from there
to dominate the national debate over church-state relations today.
In 1875, James G.
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You can tell a man by his enemies," says Lance Izumi, Director of
Education Studies at the Pacific Research Institute. Education
reformers like Mr. Izumi took…
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Tightened visa procedures for foreign students have slowed the rate
of growth in the number of international students attending U.S.
colleges, according to a…
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TEN COMMANDMENTS: The Supreme Court refused the Alabama Ten
Commandments case, but with about two dozen similar cases
unresolved across the country, the court…
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RELIGION: After months of unheeded warnings, liberal Episcopal
churchmen consecrate openly gay bishop Gene Robinson; conservatives
in the ECUSA now have the…
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Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry, a refuge for conservative
seminary students, may change its name. "We would just drop the
word Episcopal from our name,"
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It was a cross between a coronation and a wedding. A musical
prelude. The brass quartet played "Marche Royale." An acolyte in
white robes swung high the…
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POLITICS: After two key statewide elections on Nov. 4, the GOP now
has a perfect record in gubernatorial races this year. It's an
early test of a Democratic…
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Some weeks, nothing seems to go right. It's as true for political
parties as it is for individuals: The Democrats, already faced with
the prospect of losing…
IRAQ WAR Attacks on American forces and Iraqi allies continued
during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. In the most deadly single
attack on U.S. forces,
If the final episode in the Matrix trilogy were a lot more
coherent, one might feel some pressure to make sense of the
Wachowski Brothers' epic. As it stands,
Saddam's Somalia strategy? Some leftist bloggers are attempting to
label combatants in Iraq as "insurgents" instead of "terrorists" as
long as they target…
A doll with an attitude Here's a stocking stuffer that only
political animals could love: the Ann Coulter talking action
figure. The collectible doll comes…
It's a racist symbol, but I also think the Democratic Party has to
be a big tent. Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean,
defending his comment that he…
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Richard Curtis knows how to make love seem important. He's also
quite funny, and these are both admirable qualities for a
screenwriter specializing in…
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The CBS miniseries The Reagans stirred up so much controversy that
studio heads backed down. Following the postmodern assumption that
it's OK to make up…
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Ignore, for a minute, the ridiculously romanticized view of "Native
American" culture. Forget about the watered-down mysticism,
animism, and nature worship.
Faithful servant I met Paul McNulty at my first Christian Legal
Society national conference in 1987 and am delighted that our paths
have crossed occasionally…
