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LETTER: IRS Reviews Had Disparate Impact
Letter writer Gerald Zuckler argues conservatives shouldn't complain about their treatment by the IRS as tea party groups represent only one-third of the organizations whose applications for tax-exempt staus were flagged for review over their political...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Internal Revenue Service, Civil Rights, Tea Party Movement, Justice and Rights
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Women becoming priests without Vatican's blessing
SAN FRANCISCO — The priest will be ordained in a purple Lutheran church. The Communion bread, symbolizing the body of Christ, will be gluten-free. The congregation will pray to "our mother our father in heaven." But the real departure from Roman...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Anglicanism, Christianity, Breads, Same-Sex Marriage
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Cannes Film Review: 'The Immigrant'
VarietyCementing himself as the great classicist of his generation, James Gray turns back the clock to 1921 in "The Immigrant," a romantic tale that cuts to the very soul of the American experience. This rich, beautifully rendered film boasts an arrestingly...Tags: Entertainment, Migration, Joaquin Phoenix, Once Upon a Time in America (movie), Tuberculosis
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Headlines for Friday, May 24, 2013
SLAYER: Metallica, System Members Speak at Hanneman Memorial
Metallica's Robert Trujillo and System of a Down's Shavo Odadjian joined Slayer's Kerry King as speakers at Thursday's memorial service for...Tags: General Motors Corp., Adriana Lima , Destroyer (music group), Manufacturing and Engineering, Shannon Tweed
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In Afghanistan, businesswomen must seek a delicate balance
KABUL, Afghanistan — Roya Mahboob navigates the potholes of doing business in Afghanistan like any other entrepreneur. Corruption is rife. Kidnappings are common. Bomb blasts remain an overarching reality. But as the female chief executive of a...
Tags: Justice and Rights, New Products, Taliban, New York City, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Afghan women's rights in peril, group says
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The number of women and girls jailed by Afghan authorities for "moral crimes" has risen by 50% in the last year and a half, an alarming statistic that reflects the Afghan government's need to step up efforts to protect women'...
Tags: Rape, Executive Branch, Politics, Environmental Issues, Criminals
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Gregory Clay: The Sheryl Sandberg effect � Lean In or Lean Out
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceSheryl Sandberg created a national firestorm earlier this year when she said women should "Lean In" aggressively to maximize their careers. The $64,000 question, though, is how realistic is that for most women? Not every woman is like Sandberg, who is...Tags: Authors, Marriage, Fox News Channel (tv network), Washington, DC, Family
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Letters: Can conservatives appeal to college grads?
Re "Conservatives need not apply," Opinion, May 19 Economist Kevin Hassett laments the scarcity of conservatives giving graduation speeches. He even claims that "a primary objective of today's academic institutions … is not to educate students...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, University of California, Irvine, Students, Education
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ANALYSIS-Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability
Reuters* Moderate Islamist-led government cracks down on Salafists * Rupture raises risk of fuelling armed radicals in N.Africa * Main Salafist group rejects state, shuns elections * Secular Tunisians fear for freedom, stability By Tarek Amara TUNIS, May 23...Tags: Libya, Labor Legislation, Tunisia, North Africa, Arab Spring
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Analysis: Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability
ReutersTUNIS (Reuters) - For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking deadly clashes in two Tunisian cities. The...Tags: Tunisia, Armed Conflicts, Muammar Gaddafi, North Africa, Arab Spring
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Ahmadinejad protests aide's disqualification from Iran election
TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has denounced as unjust the disqualification of his top aide from next month’s presidential election and says he plans to appeal to Iran’s supreme ruler. Ahmadinejad spoke a day after the Guardian...
Tags: Elections, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran, Politics, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Classic Works With a Modern Commentary at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich
Kathleen Gilje was trained as an art restorer, and she began her career working on the national collections at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples. In her exhibit Revised and Restored which is currently open at the Bruce Museum, she used her skills to...
Tags: Museums, Arts, Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Arts and Culture
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