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Whatever he encounters over the next seven days, Benedict will certainly appreciate a break from the goings-on in Rome. Africa, where the faith is fervent and the Pope always popular, is a chance for Benedict to put some space between himself and the troubles back at headquarters. He landed in Yaoundé, Cameroon, late Tuesday to an adoring crowd of young and old alike, waving Vatican flags and pictures of the white-haired German, who turns 82 next month. Indeed, Africa is where the Roman Catholic Church is expanding most rapidly in the world, typically with a more devout...
...fact, Bunning's reliably - and defiantly - conservative voting record is largely in tune with Kentucky's reddest voters, the same folks who will decide the primary in 2010. His fervent opposition to the bank bailout increasingly looks smart, at least in the minds of many in Kentucky who are unimpressed with the economic recovery plans. Strongly against abortion and gay marriage, Bunning was rated last year as the third most conservative senator by the National Journal...
...many ways, the Adams affair is a double disloyalty. Hidden behind the fervent insistence that the scandal isn’t about “gay predators or gay anything” (as Timothy Egan insisted in his blog for the New York Times) is the implicit acknowledgement that Adams’s “betrayal” was not just of his constituents’ trust, but also of the gay community at large. When Adams denied the relationship during his campaign, he smeared his accuser, insisting that the charges were indicative of the worst kind of homophobia...
Handler, Barbie's most fervent advocate, was born in 1916, the 10th child of Polish-Jewish immigrants. Though she married and had a family, she had little interest in staying at home with her children, Barbara and Ken (who resented their mother's naming her dolls after them). "If I had to stay home, I would be the most dreadful, mixed-up, unhappy woman in the world," she once said...
...Jewish State, which he claims has lost its sense of moral purpose. In his new book The Holocaust Is Over: We Must Rise from Its Ashes (Palgrave/MacMillan), he argues that an obsession with an exaggerated sense of threats to Jewish survival cultivated by Israel and its most fervent backers actually impedes the realization of Judaism's higher goals. He discussed his ideas with TIME.com's Tony Karon...