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...evidence these days. Ruini's latest speech capped a week of almost constant headlines generated by earlier calls to restrict abortion, and warnings against intermarriage between Catholics and Muslims. On Friday, after defending the state's fundamental role in Italian society, he spoke up for the first time in favor of "intelligent design," the controversial theory popular with some U.S. conservatives that says evolution alone cannot explain the existence of the natural world. The Cardinal insists that he is just voicing the Church's teachings, as he has always done. But nowadays his message is attracting an ever more powerful...
...independent” as “airheads.”“Given the differences between the Republican and Democratic parties today, if you are not voting as a partisan, you are not voting intelligently,” he said. He later described Republicans who voted in favor of keeping Terri Schiavo alive as “crazy people that want to ruin our lives.”Turning to the 2004 presidential election, he said the Republican victory had nothing to do with moral issues, but was due instead to President Bush’s clever manipulation...
...According to Neiman, stores like All Is Fair are aimed to demonstrate that companies can sell union-made products and still have the bottom line come out in their favor...
They may be facing an uphill battle, if polls are any indication. A November Gallup Poll indicated that 50 percent of the country was in favor of Alito’s confirmation, while 25 percent were against it, and an additional 25 percent were unsure...
...didn’t fully consider its responsibility to the student body when voting for this legislation. It got caught up in a good cause ...and forgot to make sure that they went about it in a moral way,” Petersen said. Shah said he voted in favor of the resolution, despite his concern about student appointments, because South Asian Studies at Harvard has room for improvement. “This is a great step in fulfilling [Harvard’s] role as a leader in South Asian Studies,” Shah said...