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SAfrican police: 23 youths die in initiation ceremonies involving circumcision, survival
Associated PressJOHANNESBURG (AP) — Twenty-three youths have died in the past nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests, South African police said Friday. Police have opened 22 murder cases in the deaths in the northeastern...Tags: Death and Dying Customs, South Africa, Africa, Abdominal Pain, Arts and Culture
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Alison Wright, photographer, chases faces, grace
Alison Wright got her first camera at age 10, a Kodak Instamatic. Then she learned there was such a thing as a photojournalist, a person who traveled the world taking pictures. So that was that. She had a career – a career that would eventually...
Tags: Arts, Indigenous People, China Earthquake (2010), Dalai Lama, Human Interest
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Dalai Lama packs UM Comcast Center for address on compassion
He pulled on a Terps visor, to the crowd's delight. He rubbed noses with Gov. Martin O'Malley. And the Dalai Lama was met Tuesday with rounds of applause from a crowd of 15,000 at the University of Maryland, College Park's Comcast Center. "Sit down,"...
Tags: Falls Church (Falls Church, Virginia), United Nations, Politics, Henry Kissinger, Executive Branch
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Lawmakers squabble over Margaret Thatcher
Capitol IdeasYo! When the Pennsylvania legislature is in session, numerous “NONCONTROVERSIAL” resolutions usually sail through the House. These are commemorative items all lawmakers, regardless of party, can agree on. They deal with naming bridges after... -
South African ruling party criticized over video of frail Mandela
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- South Africa’s ruling African National Congress on Tuesday defended a controversial decision to allow the broadcast on television of a video of an unsmiling Nelson Mandela, looking frail, pallid and uncomfortable, as...
Tags: Africa, Prisons, Social Media, Politics, Arts and Culture
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Italy nominates youngest prime minister in years
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.ROME -- Italy turned the corner on two months of political stalemate Wednesday by nominating center-left leader Enrico Letta as prime minister after inconclusive elections in February left parties struggling to form a government. Letta, 46, is set to...Tags: Johnny Depp, Mario Monti, Politics, Parliament, Government Ministers
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The reality behind the myth of Britain's 'Iron Lady'
While the mainstream media in America love to wax poetic about former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the sainted "Iron Lady" of the Cold War, it might be wise to remember the real person behind the carefully polished myth ("Margaret Thatcher...Tags: South Africa, Media Industry, United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan
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Mrs. Thatcher A Forceful Agent For Change
The Hartford CourantMargaret Thatcher's remarkable career teaches essential enduring lessons in freedom and the ordeal of change. They did not end with her death Monday at London's Ritz Hotel, a luxury departure lounge where since late last year she awaited for her trip to...Tags: Conservative Party (UK), Politics, Career and Workplace, Work Relations, Elections
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Margaret Thatcher is lionized and lambasted
LONDON — Indifference was not an option. In death as in life, at home and abroad, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was lionized and lambasted — sometimes both in the same breath — as news of her passing Monday spread...Tags: Elizabeth II, David Cameron, Conservative Party (UK), Human Interest, Politics
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Only in death will Margaret Thatcher speak -- in an authorized bio
Margaret Thatcher signed a contract for an authorized biography more than 16 years ago. For reasons that will soon become clear, she granted writer Charles Moore an exclusive series of interviews and access to her papers on the condition that the book...
Tags: Authors, Politics, Book, Arts and Culture, Government
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Nelson Mandela discharged from hospital
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- South Africa's former president, Nelson Mandela, has been discharged from the hospital after 10 days undergoing treatment for pneumonia, officials said Saturday. Mandela's discharge was a huge relief for South Africans,...Tags: Jacob Zuma, Hospitals and Clinics, Pneumonia
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Out of the Blue: Time for a little maternal patricide
Jimmy Carter in 2009 announced he was severing ties with the Southern Baptist Convention after six decades because the leadership clings to the doctrine that "women are subservient to their husbands, and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or...Tags: Religion and Belief, Roman Catholicism, Feminism, Human Rights, Abusive Behavior
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