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...long moment of silence before the singing of the salve, a traditional song offered at midnight every night to an imagen, a doll-like, elaborately dressed statue ensconced in glass on one side of the bar. With guitar and castanets, two men wailed the chant in praise of and prayer to the Virgin, their voices mixing in harmony and discord, an aching sound similar to flamenco song...
...addition to the one-hour rally the Boston common, protesters gathered for a 90-minute address and prayer service at the Arlington Church. Boston University Professor of Political Science emeritus Howard Zinn spoke while members of the Islamic and Jewish clergy officiated...
...Callbacks sang three songs: Madonna's "Like a Prayer," "Scarborough Fair," by Simon and Garfunkle and "Tempted," by Squeeze...
...Continental's common shares--but 51% of the company's voting shares--effectively creating a domestic and international network to compete with megacarriers like United and American. The Continental shares are being sold by Air Partners, controlled by investor David Bonderman. Continental was operating on a wing and prayer five years ago when Air Partners and Air Canada (which since sold its shares) each invested about $50 million to lift the carrier out of bankruptcy. Last week Air Partners sold its remaining shares for $519 million. The alliance will boost Northwest and Continental's U.S. market share to a combined...
...TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen notes that Alabama is home to a loud and sometimes violent religious and anti-abortion movement; on-going debates over school prayer have polarized the state. "There are a lot of religious battles in the state," says Cohen. "Abortion has always had its own set of people who are angry about it." David Gunn, an Alabama doctor, was shot dead outside a Florida women's clinic in 1993. A number of Alabama-based clinics have been attacked in the past. Says Cohen: "This could be a strand of a very radical antiabortion movement that...