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At Chicago school closing hearings, crowds fade
After months of jampacked hearings over Chicago's decision to shut down scores of schools, the final round of public meetings — the ones mandated by state law — has often been sparsely attended and overcast by an air of futility. Community...
Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Old Town (Chicago, Illinois), Cynthia Soto, Chicago Teachers Union, Crime, Law and Justice
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After the Boston bombings: Looking at the links between religion and terrorism
ReligionLink rounds up what's been written about at the link between religion and terrorism after the Boston Marathon bombings: The bombings at the Boston Marathon and the subsequent identification of two ethnic Chechen immigrant brothers as the...
Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Arts and Culture, Belief and Faith, Religious Conflicts, Customs and Tradition
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It doesn't make sense ... or does it?
Contributing Writer“It just doesn’t make sense,” is the generalized response from those who had some familiarity with the Tsarnaev brothers. They seemed like the kind of young men you might like as neighbors; they appeared kind, quite, unobtrusive....Tags: Jihad, Religion and Belief
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Urban Surveillance Raises Civil Liberties Concerns In Wake Of Boston Bombings
The Hartford CourantIt's clear that cities are moving headlong into not just widespread video surveillance, but also some very sophisticated forms of monitoring and artificial intelligence to manage all those images, as I wrote in a column Monday. The Boston Marathon...Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), American Civil Liberties Union, Justice and Rights, American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, Media Industry
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Legislature starts off slow, ends with burst of activity
State RepresentativeThe last week of session contained several long days and late nights. Monday the house adjourned at around 11:20pm, and Tuesday the KY General Assembly adjourned for the final time in the 2013 session at midnight. After finishing up at my office and...Tags: Justice and Rights, Interior Policy, Politics, Pension and Welfare, Human Interest
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Savage Love: A First
I'm a gay man who has been seeing a devout Christian gay guy for one year. We have a great relationship. We have many of the same interests and respect each other's feelings and beliefs. However, I am a Catholic who is not that religious, and he is an...
Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Marriage, Belief and Faith, Minority Groups, Medical Research
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ACLU protests creationism assembly at Kansas school
The American Civil Liberties Union is objecting to a southwest Kansas district's plans to allow a pro-creationism group into its schools to talk to students about dinosaurs. Members of the Creation Truth Foundation are to speak next week during...
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union
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Mormonism and the discussion of a woman's place
The newer, smaller and more centrally organized a religion is, the less prone it is to reformed versions breaking away. It also helps if the religion's followers form an insular group, to one extent or another, away from the tug of societal trends....
Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Mormonism, Rituals, Roman Catholicism, Jesus Christ
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The terror of not knowing
WASHINGTON -- As the manhunt for the Boston bombers reached its climactic conclusion, Americans of all hues and backgrounds heaved a sigh of relief. Thank goodness it wasn't … fill in the blank: A white Christian from the South; A dark-...
Tags: Jihad, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Religious Conflicts, Crime, Law and Justice
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Lawmakers ask who knew what about bomb suspect
BOSTON (AP) — Lawmakers are asking tough questions about how the government tracked suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev when he traveled to Russia last year, renewing criticism from after the Sept. 11 attacks that failure to share...
Tags: Sean Collier, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Lindsey O. Graham, U.S. Embassy, Punishment
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As Boston buries its dead, more evidence gathered
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston area held funerals for two more of its dead Tuesday — including an 8-year-old boy — as evidence mounted that the older Tsarnaev brother had embraced a radical, anti-American strain of Islam and was the driving...
Tags: Sean Collier, Marco Rubio, Computer Crime, U.S. Embassy, Punishment
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And now for a woman traveler's take on women in Egypt
Thanks so much for all your comments as you’ve traveled along with me through Egypt. I’m struck by how much apparent ill will there is against Egypt and how people think I’m promoting aspects of Egypt that anger them. Egypt simply...
Tags: Minority Groups, Islam, Cairo (Egypt), Egypt, Religion and Belief
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