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“An ex-diplomat convicted of having sex with teenage girls in the Congo and Brazil and taping the encounters is asking a judge for leniency, claiming that cultural differences in those countries make sex with girls more acceptable.”
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“Now I am not really a fan of religion, but the idea of banning minarets in Switzerland as proposed by the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) just seems downright silly.”
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“The article follows the prom adventures of high school seniors who came to Brooklyn from locales like Senegal, Venezuela, Tibet, Haiti, Poland and Gabon (one was a nomadic yak herder until age 12).”
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“In accordance with the new law, bloggers and website editors can be sentenced to death for crimes such as promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy, the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) reported.”
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“The American Medical Association is issuing a formal apology for more than a century of discriminatory policies that excluded blacks from participating in a group long considered the voice of U.S. doctors.”
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“Would we have laughed as hard at Knocked Up if it was the story of a smart and savvy woman of color about to launch her big career, but has a one-night-stand after a night of partying and gets pregnant by some “low-life” guy she just met [...?]“
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“In a putative show of compassion, federal authorities released them after putting an electronic homing device on each woman’s ankle to monitor her whereabouts.”
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“The 7th Circuit [...] has held that an apartment which — in the course of prohibiting all outside objects on doorways — bars observant Jews from posting Mezuzot on the door frames does not violate the Fair Housing Act.”
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“I told them, ‘I would like all of you out of here immediately.’”
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“But Kressley’s move to a talk show is interesting in one other arena: the domination of gays and blacks on the daytime television circuit.”
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“McKinney runs on an anti-war and human rights platforms and is well known for her efforts to help Hurricane Katrina victims as well as her criticisms of the government on their handling of it.”
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“There’s a constant drumbeat of media linking Indians to casinos…implying they’re rich, greedy, and corrupt…and suggesting they no longer need or deserve the treaty benefits owed them by the federal government.”
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“[W]hen we speak Latino, we don’t speak of people who are only of Castillian Spanish. They could be descendants of Persian Jews, Lebanese Christians, Tagalog Filipinos or simple any of the hundreds of Native South American and Caribbean tribes that popula
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[...] links for 2008-07-17Salon.com – Five Things – “Ex diplomat: Teen sex OK abroad”. “An ex-diplomat convicted of having sex with teenage girls in the Congo and Brazil and taping the encounters is asking a judge for leniency, claiming that cultural differences … [...]