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• Study: Peers, not profs, influence student views
On issues such as abortion, gay marriage and religion, college students shift noticeably to the left from the time they arrive on campus through their junior year, new research shows. The reason, according to UCLA's Higher Education Research ...
• McCain vows to fight for new direction
... campaigned in southeastern Ohio on Sunday, easing back on attacks but reminding the crowd of Obama's remarks during the primary campaign in which he said working class Americans, afraid for their economic future, were clinging to guns and religion. Sen
• Threats Aside, Maher Show 'Uneventful'
His new documentary "Religulous" skewers organized religion, and recently opened in movie theaters. "It contained specific threats made against Bill Maher," said Spain, who did not provide details and did not say whether the threats mentioned the movie
• Polygamous sect sues to regain control of trust
... Plan Trust and is dismantling a way of life for members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. "Utah, through its attorney general and the 3rd District Court, is interfering in obvious ways with the exercise of religion by ...
• Official: 3,000 Christians flee Iraq's Mosul
We respect the Islamic religion and the Muslim clerics," he said. "We don't know under what religion's pretexts these terrorists work." The violence in Mosul occurs despite U.S.-Iraqi operations launched over the summer aimed at routing al-Qaida in ...