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...whether she may have been prodded by her new friends at Global Revolution Church to make the death-threat accusations, and whether she was somehow lured to Orlando by the Lorenzes via the Internet. The couple, who could not be reached for comment, have denied it to the media. But Beverly Lorenz has acknowledged that she talked by phone with Rifqa before the girl ran away. Blake Lorenz, who insists that Rifqa will be killed if she goes home, earlier this month made clear to reporters his Crusades-era belief that this is part of Christianity's holy struggle against...
...Rifqa is turning into a cause célèbre. Conservative websites often accused of anti-Muslim agendas, such as the Jawa Report, Atlas Shrugs and WorldNetDaily, have been lighting up over the Rifqa fight. No doubt conservative and anti-U.S. Muslims will eventually step into the media frenzy. And politicians have already started weighing in. Florida's moderate Republican governor and U.S. Senate candidate, Charlie Crist, who needs conservative voters to win his state's closed GOP primary next year, issued a statement on Aug. 21 saying he's "grateful to Circuit Judge Daniel Dawson...
...Were discovery of that ruse not bad enough, investigations subsequently revealed that former England rubgy great and Harlequins coach Dean Richards - who has since resigned - had used the fake wound ploy on at least four previous occasions. But perhaps worst of all, the British media reports that as suspicion surged around the conveniently timed injury even before the match against Leinster had ended, Harlequins medical staffers rushed to slice a real gash inside Williams' mouth with a scalpel to cover their cheating...
...Chindu Sreedharan, 36, lecturer in Journalism and Communication at the Media School in Bournemouth University, England, says he has always had a soft spot for the epic tale, the narrative of a war between cousins Pandavas and Kauravas. "It's more cultural than religious," he says. "Most [Indians] know the storyline. It's something our grandmothers have told us." That and his keen interest in social media led Sreedharan to start experimenting with the epic, writing it in short bursts online to see how it would read in that format. After three weeks of posting entries, his "Epicretold" twitter feed...
Government officials dodged reporters' attempts to get details on the potential firings. They also offered little to help Iraqis sleep at night. Indeed, predicted Rukabi: "There will be political, security and media pressures in order to escalate the situation from now until the elections." With the elections not till January 2010, the truck-bombings have become additional fodder for the country's volatile politics, which are even more frenetic as the political parties work on solidifying alliances and coalitions. Expect the campaign season to be long and rocky and explosive...