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...raise a shoe at President Bush. The site encourages visitors to add their own images to a simple gallery of photographs showing people holding up their potential footwear projectiles to protest the Iraq war. One of the site's creators, reached by phone, did not want to divulge his name - "This is a photo project, not a political campaign, and we value our privacy" - but explained that he and a co-creator sent a few dozen e-mails about the site to friends around the world, and within days, news of the site spread, with several hundred photos collected...
...Nicky Gumbel, 53, the .0former Etonian and one-time barrister who founded the course to better reach young people, wore green socks, loafers and an open collar shirt. Gumbel, HTB's vicar since 2005, started proceedings by suggesting that participants choose adjectives starting with the same letter as their name. He introduced himself as "Nautical Nicky...
...come. But Arinze's retirement raises the question of if and when the Catholic Church will be ready to follow the United States in choosing a man with roots in Africa - or anywhere outside of Europe - to lead its ever more diverse flock. Vatican insiders are reticent to name names with Benedict so firmly in command, but there are several prominent clerics likely to take Arinze's place as most papabile African, alongside other better known possibilities from Latin America and Asia who might one day become Pope. (See photos of the election of Pope Benedict...
...graduate of Colorado College (B.A., 1977) and the University of Michigan (J.D., 1981), Salazar made his name as a lawyer on water issues. He went on to serve as executive director of Colorado's Department of Natural Resources from 1987 to 1994 and later served as the state's attorney general from...
...Made a name for himself by controversially opposing oil-shale leases in the West...