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U.S. housing nominee vows to divest bank stock if confirmed
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Mel Watt, nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as a top housing regulator, plans to divest bank stock he owns if confirmed in the post, according to a statement filed with the Office of Government...Tags: M&F Bancorp Incorporated, Consumers, Washington, DC, Finance, Religion and Belief
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Not just any body
If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of life-saving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter...
Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dismemberment, ABC (tv network), Authors, Ethics
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Browning, Ott joust over taxes
THE RACE: Lehigh County executive THE CANDIDATES: Republicans Dean Browning and Scott Ott THE AD: Voiceover: "Candidate Scott Ott promised not to raise our taxes. Nine months later Commissioner Ott broke his promise and jacked up taxes on thousands. To...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Elections, Voting, Religion and Belief, Don Cunningham
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Book Talk: Of apes and atheists - is empathy evolution?
ReutersBy Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, May 16 (Reuters) - For biologist Frans de Waal, a peaceful species of great ape in Africa is a mirror of humanity and a living argument that empathy and cooperation are far from unique to mankind. "The Bonobo and the...Tags: Science and Technology, Ethics, Religion and Belief, Biology
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Pope rails against "dictatorship of the economy", urges reform
Reuters* Pope makes first major speech on economic issues * Decries "tyranny" of the market, "cult of money" * Calls for ethical reforms of financial structures By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY, May 16 (Reuters) - Pope Francis issued a strong call for world...Tags: The Pope, Francis I, Finance, Vatican City, Ethics
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Editorial: Want real elections? It's up to you
When Illinois lawmakers sit down to draw new legislative maps, the two most important pieces of information are 1) how each precinct voted in the last election and 2) where the incumbents live. Using that information, the majority party sorts voters...
Tags: Justice System, Elections, Voting, Religion and Belief, Crime, Law and Justice
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Analysis - Blackstone and peers have a bargain for you: themselves
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Alternative asset managers such as Blackstone Group LP and KKR & Co LP have for decades scoured the stock market for undervalued companies. Now they are trying to convince investors that shares in their own firms are a bargain. As...Tags: Apples, Finance, Thomson Corporation, The Carlyle Group, Religion and Belief
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Scientists create human stem cells through cloning
ReutersBy Sharon Begley NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996:...Tags: Macular Degeneration, Animals, Science and Technology, Religion and Belief, Drugs and Medicines
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Different approaches to affordable housing in Winnetka, Wilmette
Finding affordable housing in Winnetka over the years has been a journey of faith for Sister Peggy McDonnell. A Catholic nun, McDonnell has found a way to stay in Winnetka for nearly 25 years — including 11 years in a coach house — despite...
Tags: Referenda, United States Census Bureau, Rentals, Winnetka (Cook, Illinois), Ethics
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Russia's gays fear more violence after brutal murder
ReutersBy Thomas Grove and Steve Gutterman MOSCOW, May 13 (Reuters) - They beat him. They shoved beer bottles in his anus. They tried to set him on fire. Then they crushed his head with a heavy stone. A 23-year-old man in Russia's southern city of Volgograd...Tags: Gay Rights, Lawyers, Justice System, Christianity, Religion and Belief
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ANALYSIS-Once a beacon, Obama under fire over civil liberties
ReutersBy Joan Biskupic and David Ingram WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - He may have been the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He may have written a book extolling...Tags: Terrorism, Elections, Ronald Reagan, Republican Party, New York University
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How much tolerance for intolerance?
Tolerance is justifiably one of liberal Democracy's most cherished values. But what do we do when tolerance, with its openness to multiple views, permits and even supports intolerance? This is particularly an issue today when open prejudice against Jews...Tags: Culture, Terrorism, Religion and Belief, Saudi Arabia, Islam
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