Homeless on the Capitol's doorstepEvery evening they show up outside the ATT offices at 14th and H Streets, men and women clutching sleeping bags and small tents, staking out a few square metres to bed down for the night. The overhang of the building protects them from rain, and it is well lit. Warm air wafts up through the grates of the metro. By 10pm, the pavement is carpeted with dozens of homeless people. It is exactly two blocks from the White House, writesLARA MARLOWE , Washington Correspondent
Uncertain future for Belfast's JewsNESTLED BEHIND carefully pruned hedges on Belfast’s resolutely middle-class Somerton Road is an unexpected landmark. In a town where religion and politics have been intertwined stands the synagogue of the Belfast Hebrew Congregation, an unassuming modernist building that is home to a faith community that has been in the city for decades, writesJASON WALSH
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The (officially) lapsed CatholicsThanks to a website, it has never been easier to defect from the Catholic church, and people are beginning to take up the option. Some of those who have opted out speak toKATE HOLMQUIST
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UPFRONT: AS JOXER DALY would say: “If you want to know me, come live with me.” Please do not take that literally. Not that you’d really have to, given the level of self-exposure on these pages, but my house is too small for all of you. Or any of you for that matter, no matter how few you may be. This I know, because it’s even too small for those that currently reside therein, particularly the one who is over six feet tall. It is because the house was bought by – and for – little people, that is my vertically challenged self and my similarly challenged sister.
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