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...this trial, which is expected to last until mid-June, prosecutors are likewise trying to portray Scientology as merely a large-scale scam while ignoring the organization's religious conceits. Now a country that constantly wrestles with the separation of church and state will find out just how far it's willing to go to keep the two apart...
...Crimean peninsula, which has a predominantly ethnic Russian population and is home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet. In an article in Ukraine's Den newspaper on Thursday, Yuriy Shcherbak, Ukraine's former ambassador to the U.S., wrote that political analysts close to the Russian leadership were keen to portray Ukraine, which has huge economic woes and a political élite riven by infighting, as a "failed state...
Todd, Chuck •the word "credible" is applied to Cheney by - really, "credible," he actually said it - as part of the contemptible media effort to portray the immediate following of a presidential speech about national security by Cheney's self-serving defense of the beyond-disastrous policies he was the architect of as some kind of battle of equals...
...golfers, a strategy that disturbs some women's sports advocates. Two women, standing back to back in high heels, tight sleeveless shirts and black shorts shorter than a tap-in putt, greet visitors to the company's website, PlayGolfDesigns.com. "Whenever anyone, including the athletes themselves, chooses to portray female athletes in other than sport-appropriate attire on the golf course, like these two golfers on the fairway, they're selling a sexual stereotype, not a skilled professional golfer," says Donna Lopiano, former CEO of the Women's Sports Foundation and the current president of Sports Management Resources. "It offends...
...anniversary of the historic siege of Niagara during the French-Indian War. Old Fort Niagara is planning a large-scale commemoration of the battle from July 3 to 5, with a living history encampment, fireworks, a naval forces demonstration, and more than 2,300 re-enactors suiting up to portray British, French and American Indian soldiers in battles and a nighttime artillery bombardment. For kids there are 18th-century children's games, woodland skills workshops, soldier's drills and other activities...