In a bid to avoid the kind of layoffs that have devastated ABC News in recent weeks, CBS has again started talking to CNN about some kind of merger. CBS President Les Moonves initiated the latest round of bargaining, according to knowledgeable sources, when it became apparent that the network…
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CBS, CNN eyeing combined news ops
Zed, who is the president of Universal Society of Hinduism, further said that they were fully supportive of the artistic freedom and expression and did not want any unnecessary censorship, but were highly concerned about the increasing presence of …
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Hindus criticise Cinematograph Act 2010 of India – Meri News
Finding the Meaning of Life Through Fiction Big Think “Whether it's Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism , they've all had their excesses, but nonetheless, there's something afoot in that kind of thinking, … Where Do Characters Come From
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Finding the Meaning of Life Through Fiction – Big Think
The record of Cardinal William J. Levada, whose Vatican office oversees abuse cases, shows that he often did not act as assertively as he could have.
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Cardinal Has a Mixed Record on Sexual Abuse Cases
A blogger has certain responsibilities, not the least being the need to follow up when unctuous political figures convert something as forgettable as a state seal into an opportunity for moralistic grandstanding . In the same spirit as NPR’s treatment of this important matter, I offer my own appraisals of selected state seals
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Great Seals I’ve Known
KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 (Reuters) – Dubai Group may not be keen to sell its stake in Malaysia’s No.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-05-05 02:49 CORRECTED-Dubai Group may not sell Bank Islam stake – report
If Obama doesn’t intervene to let evangelist Graham lead a National Day of Prayer Pentagon event it’ll be a ‘slap in the face’ to Christians.
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Franklin Graham wants Obama to step in on Prayer Day slight
Hooded Fang* posted a photo: I will be showing some of my recent and not so recent collages at Driftwood Salon in SF on Thursday, May 6th from 5-10. Come on by. ————————————————— Driftwood Salon is pleased to present our first annual “Lost And Found” exhibit, a group show, opening Thursday, May 6th, from 5PM to 10PM
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"Lost And Found"
(Corrects sourcing of expected sale timeline in paragraph 3)
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CORRECTED – CORRECTED-Dubai Group may not sell Bank Islam stake – report
News Corp’s quarterly profit beat expectations thanks to the 3-D blockbuster “Avatar” and strong cable networks, but the media conglomerate’s shares fell 4 percent after its outlook disappointed some investors.
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News Corp profit up on Avatar, but outlook disappoints
KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 (Reuters) – Dubai Group may not be keen to sell its stake in Malaysia’s No. 2 sharia lender Bank Islam, the Business Times reported on Wednesday, citing a source. “They may not sell after all because they see value in the bank,” the source was quoted as saying in a Business Times report.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-05-05 01:33 Dubai Group may not sell Bank Islam stake – report
Maybe Ross Levinsohn had a worst-case scenario where nearly five years after the acquisition of MySpace for $580 million, top News Corp . execs told analysts MySpace was a work in progress building a foundation with a goal of being cash positive next year.
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News Corp. Execs Admit MySpace ‘Big Mistakes’ But Insist Trends Are Better
One unadvertised consequence of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption will be a very slight delay in global climate change.
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We have the technology to cool our planet
If David Cameron’s manifesto plans for 16-year-olds are successful, children will have to die. I like children, but I hope Mr Cameron is successful. I fear, though, thanks to a school trip I went on when I was 17, that he won’t be
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David Cameron’s plans mean children will die
Tomorrow marks the start of the real campaign. The battle for the next election will begin within hours of the first constituencies being declared tomorrow night. Assuming the polls are anywhere near accurate, no party will win a decisive majority in tomorrow’s election
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We need a Tory-Lib Dem pact. Vote Labour
On Tuesday, in an interview with USA TODAY, Graham reiterated his belief that “Muslims do not worship the same ‘God the Father’ I worship,” and laughed at Hinduism’s many manifestations of God: “No elephant with 100 arms can do anything for me.
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Franklin Graham wants Obama to step in on Prayer Day … – USA Today
FABRICE COFFRINI AFP file Deftones fans gesture during the band’s 2006 performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. The Deftones’ “Diamond Eyes,” out Tuesday, is the Sacramento band’s first CD without Chi Cheng on bass.
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The Deftones have new perspective, new album
As promised a few posts ago, I’m delighted to introduce you to our new contributor, Janine Giordano , who introduces herself further below and provides some reflections on Sharon Davies’ new book on race, religion, and a murder in Birmingham in 1921. ________________________________________________________________________________ Greetings from Illinois! An advanced graduate student in the History Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, I’m excited to be a new contributor to the blog! While I look forward to teaching 19th-20th century US Labor and Political History, Gender and Religion, World Religions, and bending the ear of anyone else who will talk with me about the past, I spend most of my time working on my dissertation, Between Religion and Politics: The Working Class Religious Left, 1886-1936
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Protestant Minister Kills Catholic Priest, but Where’s the Religious History?
Contextual Notes : The prophecy of Isaiah is one of the most beautiful, towering, and significant books of the Old Testament. Its messages of judgment are set against great visions of comfort and hope. Isaiah has been called the Fifth Gospel, for it is the most Messianic and Christological (Christ-centered and Christ-predicting) in the OT.
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Isaiah 1:1-20 – The Remedy for Rebellion
When a man is affected by a passion, things seem to him greater or smaller than they really are, as to a lover, what he loves seems better, and to him who fears, what he fears seems more dreadful. Consequently owing to the defect of right judgment, every passion, considered in itself, hinders the ability
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More Notes on the Goodness of the Passions
How should a rational civil authority regulate marriage, supposing that the state does not accept a particular religious revelation or tradition as definitive, and that the citizens of the state recognize various religious authorities? Since most of us leave us in civil states like this, the question is not unimportant. But this is the actual
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Rational Civil Authority and Marriage
The leaders of the Legionary of Christ wrote a communiqué to the Legion’s members, its friends, and to all those affected or wounded by the actions of their founder, Fr Marcial Maciel. They apologized for the injuries that were done and for their failure to listen to those who had brought these things to their attention. Moreover they commented on their attitude towards the future.
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Legionaries of Christ – Communiqué
Why do natural inclinations of human nature give rise to an obligation of natural law? The International Theological Commission presents a mean between two extremes: one, which it labels “physicalism,” takes the natural inclinations as absolutes that are not subordinate to any higher principle; the other extreme takes the natural inclinations as mere “matter” for human action, devoid of any intrinsic human teleology. On the one hand, the human subject is not a union or juxtaposition of diverse and autonomous natural inclinations, but a substantial and personal whole called to respond to the love of God and to unite himself through a recognized orientation towards a last end, which hierarchizes the partial goods manifested by diverse natural tendencies…
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Natural Law and Natural Inclinations
Paul Harvey At Killing the Buddha , our contributor Michael Pasquier has posted his first documentary production: “An Interest in Women: The Bellocq Brothers’ Catholic New Orleans.” Killing the Buddha is an online religion magazine for people made anxious by churches, people embarrassed to be caught in the “spirituality” section of a bookstore, people both hostile and drawn to talk of God. Since it was founded by Jeff Sharlet and Peter Manseau in 2000, it has published uncommon commentary, journalism, reviews, fiction, art, and more about religion, politics, and culture
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An Interest in Women: The Bellocq Brothers’ Catholic New Orleans
News Corp., the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, said Tuesday that its net income fell 69 percent in the latest quarter compared with a year earlier, when it recorded a huge gain on the sale of its stake in a technology company.
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News Corp. 3Q income down despite `Avatar’ boost
This Week Today Big Brothers & Sisters of Summit & Medina Counties will benefit from Arby’s National Community Fundraiser, which kicks off at Arby’s restaurants across the country. Running through June 12, the event offers customers the opportunity to donate $1 to their local agency in return for a coupon good for a future Arby’s purchase. Donate online at http://www.facebook.com/arbysfoundation.
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The Scene – May 3
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican on Monday made clear for the first time that bishops and other church officials should report clerical sex abuse to police if required by law. But the policy failed to satisfy victims who charge that the church deliberately hid abuse for decades.
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Vatican to bishops: follow law, report sex abuse