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Marriage, historically, straddles the boundary between politics and religion. It is by nature a religious institution sanctioned and administered by a secular political framework. With the passage of time, however, marriage has evolved to live a double life. On the one hand, it is a religious affair, with different churches conducting marriage ceremonies in places of worship conducted by ordained clergy. On the other hand, however, it is a civic institution, with states registering marriages in secular ceremonies held in courthouses presided over by civic officials. The Vatican has always exercised spiritual sovereignty over the religious institution of marriage within...
...once considered a fringe ultra-nationalist, is now the wildly popular governor of Tokyo. And with the socialist and communist parties effectively defunct, there are far more conservatives in parliament than ever before. The boiler room of the neocon network is the "Young Diet Members' Group for Establishing Security Framework for the New Century." This multiparty coalition of about 270 Diet members was co-founded in 2001 by young, influential lawmakers, including former defense chief Shigeru Ishiba and Seiji Maehara, a member of the primary opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). A passel of hotly contested proposals to broaden Japan...
...Lane was most famous for the ground-breaking paper he co-wrote with Samuel Eilenberg of Columbia in 1945 which introduced category theory, a framework to show how mathematical structures relate to each other. This branch of algebra has since influenced most mathematical fields and also has functions in philosophy and linguistics, but was first dismissed by many practical mathematicians as too abstract to be useful...
...President George Herbert Walker Bush signed, and the U.S. Senate ratified, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This treaty, by which the ratifying nations (now numbering 188) pledge to avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, has fallen on hard times. The voluntary measures originally thought to be adequate for a return to 1990 greenhouse gas emission levels (specified by the Convention) were soon recognized as ineffective...
...music and a framework of what I wanted,” he says of the choreographic process. “It was my first time choreographing, so it was experimental.” Blazer was still planning small changes on his piece as of Monday’s technical rehearsal...