The jury investigated the suicide of Kimberly Rogers. She was 40, eight months' pregnant and confined to her apartment for welfare fraud when she took a lethal overdose of an anti-depressant during a heat wave in August, 2001.

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Supreme Court says B.C. school board wrong to ban same-sex booksThe Surrey board said it ordered the ban because the books were not suitable for five- and six-year olds. The board also said many parents objected to the books because they regard homosexuality as a sin.

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The Vatican-controlled Jesuit magazine Civiltà Cattolica said in its Friday edition that Pius XII "probably did not possess the qualities of a prophet."

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In a letter ordering Somma to halt publication of her book, the hospital's lawyer, Alvin Deutsch, contends that a 1976 U.S. law extended the copyright protection for Peter Pan until the year 2023.

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Join us in challenging rogue states run by military fanatics who produce and conceal weapons of mass destruction. Rooting Out Evil is sending a weapons inspection team to the United States to inspect the chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons produced and concealed by the Bush regime. And we want you to join us - in person or in spirit.

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"At first, this intense talent of Bergman's was applied to drama between people, human emotions, and it was gripping and intense and full of surprise. Then when I saw Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal and The Magician, this enormous dramatic talent was applied not just to human emotions %uFFD0 he didn't lose that %uFFD0 but also to philosophical issues that were very meaningful to me. He was dramatising things that I had read about in Kierkegaard, in Nietzsche: big questions, existential questions. Here was a director making films that confronted those issues, that were intellectually stimulating, not in a pedantic way, but in an entertaining way, as any great murder mystery, or musical, or lighter film would entertain."

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