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Aristide at Issue, Despite Forceful U.S. Support; Deposed President's Deputizing Former Police Chief as a Recruiter Sparks a Controversy
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Haiti's deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide sent a Haitian
former police chief to Guantanamo Bay to recruit refugees there as
future security personnel even though the U.S. government had raised
questions about the police chief's human rights record.
The recent incident was described by U.S. officials and aides
of Aristide's after an account of it was disclosed in a leak from
Capitol Hill critics of the administration.
The incident illustrates that Aristide, a populist leader
deposed by a military coup in 1991, remains a subject of controversy
even on the eve of a possible U.S. ...
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Protestant Identities: Religion, Society, and Self-Fashioning in Post-Reformation England.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; ...a "missing piece in the puzzle of English puritanism." Burke Griggs examines John Walker's attempts to unseat Edmund Calamy's accounts of Nonconformist suffering by producing an empirically based understanding, rather than a Foxean martyrology...
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Ho! Ho! . . . Oh!; There's No Light Without the Dark
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...outlawed Christmas revels, declaring the day an occasion for fasting and humiliation. On Christmas Day, 1644, Mr. Edmund Calamy preached before the House of Lords, "And truly I think that the superstition and profanation of this day is so rooted...
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The persecution of Thomas Emlyn, 1703-1705.(United Kingdom)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State
; ...1682. At Doolittle's academy, Emlyn was educated alongside the next generation of leading dissenters, including Edmund Calamy, Matthew Henry and Thomas Rowe. In 1683, without apparently having obtained, any religious orders, Emlyn became...
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