Monthly Archive: September 2005

Back in the Middle Ages, after the Roman Church had largely abolished the use of concubines and slaves among well-off Christians, the most popular method for European women to control their fertility and for...

Two British nationals were detained by Iraqi authorities. It emerged later that they were British soldiers. Dressed in plain clothes … the two men had been driving in an unmarked car when they arrived...

President Bush doesn’t often find common cause with Cuba, Zimbabwe, Iran, Syria and Venezuela. But this month the Bush administration joined with those countries and others to eviscerate a forthright U.N. statement that nations...

Investigators appointed by the Vatican have been instructed to review each of the 229 Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States for “evidence of homosexuality” … the American archbishop who is supervising the seminary...

Iran strongly believes that it has complied with Articles I and II of the [Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty], where it agrees not to manufacture or acquire nuclear weapons, and Article III, where it accepts full...

University of Utah biologists studied the genetics of whale lice small crustaceans that are parasites on endangered right whales and showed the giant whales split into three species 5 million to 6 million years...

Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals … senior doctors took the harrowing decision to give massive overdoses of...

We have managed to show ourselves, our friends and most of all our enemies the limits of American power. Instead of fighting the real war that was thrust upon us on that incomprehensible morning...

Private contractors, guided by two former directors of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other well-connected lobbyists and consultants, are rushing to cash in on the unprecedented sums to be spent on Hurricane Katrina...

For the nine years between 1972 and the end of 1981 … so great was Rehnquist’s Placidyl habit, dependency, or addictiondepending on how you regard long-term drug usethat by the last quarter of 1981...