| August 9, 2003 | -
Leaders of the Episcopal Church approved a gay bishop and said that individual churches could choose to bless same-sex unions; a group of conservative bishops called for the creation of a new Anglican province in the United States where homosexuality would remain a bona fide sin.
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New York Times
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| July 29, 2003 | - The Democratic Leadership Council warned that "the Democratic Party is in danger of being taken over by the far left."
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 13, 2002 | -
President Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan, who calls himself Akbar Turkmenbashi, the Great Leader of All Turkmen, changed the names of the months and the days of the week; January, for example, will be known as Turkmenbashi, after the president.
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| June 12, 2001 | -
Senate
Majority Leader Tom Daschle, perhaps seeking to demonstrate the true grit of his party, promised that Democrats would not block President Bush's judicial nominees—unlike the Republicans, who blocked almost half the judges appointed by Bill Clinton.
“I don't believe in it,” Daschle said.
“We have to break the cycle.”
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| May 8, 2001 | -
Japan arrested Kim Jong Nam, son of Kim Jong Il, the Dear Leader of North Korea; the Little General, as he is known in the Hermit Kingdom, was trying to sneak into Japan to take a four-year-old boy to Tokyo Disneyland.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
Leaders of the Jewish Reform movement recommended that parents remove their children from the Boy Scouts because the Scouts continue to insist on banning homosexuals—this despite the traditional schoolyard opinion that Boy Scouts are somehow inherently gay.
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| November 21, 2000 | - A German
general was named to head the European Union's “rapid reaction force.” Germans were horrified that Israeli soldiers had killed a German doctor outside his home in the West Bank.
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| August 8, 2000 | - Organizers of the United Nations Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders failed to invite the Tibetan Dalai Lama because doing so would offend China.
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