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Chris November 30th, 2007 at 3:16 pm »
COMMENTS (0)An Indonesian businessman is complaining that polygamy is not so easy. The businessman’s attempt to make polygamy easier was rejected by the Indonesian constitutional court earlier this year.
Polygamy is legal in Indonesia but according to the countries marriage laws the only way that a man can take a second wife is to have it approved [...]
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Chris August 24th, 2007 at 2:26 am »
COMMENTS (3)We often hear news stories about those who’ve been wrongly convicted being freed from jail, sometimes after being incarcerated for many years. The newly freed often sue the legals system for wrongful confinement.
Three men in Birmingham, England who were recently freed after respectively spending 18, 18 and 11 years in prison for murder, were, [...]
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Chris July 20th, 2007 at 2:33 am »
COMMENTS (2) Do you believe in the power of positive thinking? Do you think it could save the world?
If you do, you aren’t alone. Apparently a group of transcendental meditation practitioners are saying that crime and war could be stopped in it’s tracks by channeling huge amounts of human psychic energy into productive thought.
Needham, Mass., [...]
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Chris January 26th, 2007 at 10:00 pm »
COMMENTS (0)Chinese officials are upset about the name of a teahouse and have ordered it’s name to be changed. The name roughly translates as “Frog Keeps a Mistress” - what, haven’t they ever read any Grimes fairy tales?
The officials think that the name threatens public morality. However the manager insists that the name wasn’t meant to [...]