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...bringing together couples from different religious backgrounds who may find a civil union the best option. Sujata Naik and Ron Scapello puzzled over the possibilities. In the end, Naik, a dual British and U.S. national of Indian immigrant parents, brought up as a Hindu but educated at a convent school, took Scapello, a Briton of Maltese Catholic parentage, as her husband in a Hindu exchange of vows. "We felt committed as a couple and we didn't feel the need for an official blessing," says Naik. "That's partly why we went for the Hindu wedding. It seemed more...
...This wasn't Karr's first shot at teaching Thai kids. Saint Joseph's Convent, an elite elementary and high school a short drive from the Christian college - where parents who drive late-model BMWs shell out $7,400 a semester to get their daughters educated - had hired Karr for a two- or three- week trial period earlier this year as a grade-school English teacher. "We were just seeing if he passed our standards," a senior school official who declined to be identified told TIME. "He didn't, so I fired him." She recalled that officials at Bangkok Christian...
...fearless, deadly with a blade and, beneath his armored persona, stubbornly loyal. Those qualities animate the newly translated Purity of Blood. Alatriste is hired to help an aging father free his daughter, a nun, from the clutches of a well-connected priest who is using the convent as his private seraglio. The old man and his family have a secret: as Christian descendants of a converted Jew in anti-Semitic times, they lack "purity of blood" and soon become targets of the Inquisition. Alatriste too comes under suspicion, and the blood, pure and otherwise, begins to flow. Like the other...
...YURI ZARAKHOVICH, TIME Moscow Correspondent Charming Prechistenka Street leads you to the Temple of Christ the Savior, pictured. Emperor Nicolas I ordered a 14th century convent razed in 1837 to build the original cathedral. The Bolsheviks tore it down in 1931, and the site hosted a swimming pool until the cathedral was re-erected in the 1990s. Mull over Russia's vagaries at the National Hotel's Moskovsky Restaurant on Mokhovaya Street, where the fabulous view of the Kremlin complements the traditional Russian food...
...real heart. Go to the Pushkin, the best Russian restaurant in town, pictured. Trust your waiter's taste - and order your vodka straight away. yuri zarakhovich, TIME Moscow correspondent Charming Prechistenka Street leads you to the Temple of Christ the Savior. Emperor Nicolas I ordered a 14th century convent razed in 1837 to build the original cathedral. The Bolsheviks tore it down in 1931, and the site hosted a swimming pool until the cathedral was re-erected in the 1990s. Mull over Russia's vagaries at the National Hotel's Moskovsky Restaurant on Mokhovaya Street, where the fabulous view...