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...years. Even if you have a job, it's not a good time to have your wage be dependent on lavish tips. The No. 1 convention city has also had a wave of cancellations from the AIG effect - companies don't want the bad publicity of being seen in Sin City. Just as Las Vegas was the epicenter of the extravagant consumption of the past 20 years, now it's the deepest crater of the recession over the last year. And while I do want to get my money back, I'm a little worried about seeing the dream sucked...
...version of Islam, rejecting anything Western and Christian. Boko Haram began life as a peaceful group focused on the study of the Koran, according to Abdulmumin Sa'ad, a Muslim scholar and professor of sociology at the University of Maiduguri. "The idea was that there is a lot of sin in the larger society and their parents had amassed a lot of ill-gotten wealth," says Sa'ad, who taught some of the militants. "There is widespread immorality, and so the best thing to do is to remove themselves and camp elsewhere, where they can concentrate on their religion ... mediate...
AHMEDABAD, India – Nearly two months after its release in America, a screwball comedy about four friends in Las Vegas has become a surprising hit thousands of miles from its Sin City setting. The Hangover certainly makes for an unlikely sell on the megaplex marquee in a country predominantly driven by religious convictions, where conservative attitudes toward premarital sex, drugs, interracial marriage, and even dating resonate deeply. But the film’s popularity demonstrates a challenge to these foundations of culture in India, revealing a younger generation perhaps as much in step with Western pop culture...
...grand jury and instead should have invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself. Prosecutors can accept that. But lie to them, and it gets personal. "It's the difference between making mistakes, which everybody does, and making up a story," a lawyer told Bush. "That is a sin that prosecutors are not going to forgive...
...time did I hear a prayer uttered or a compassionate word spoken on behalf of those the proposition would most affect. The church seems callous to the epidemic of suicides among young gay Mormons. No matter how often Mormon leaders utter that worn adage "We hate the sin but love the sinner," it will sound as hollow as it is hackneyed. Alan Bahr, LAFAYETTE, CALIF...