In the June 27 edition of The Washington Post an obituary by Matt Schudel: “Marc Rich 78  Fugitive financier was pardoned by Clinton”. ‘Marc Rich made a billion-dollar fortune by doing business with Iran, Iraq, Russia, Libya and other countries [Ceausescu’s Romania,] sometimes at odds with the United States’

In the June 30 issue of The Washington Post, an op-ed by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington: “The nature of marriage”

In the same issue, a commentary by Peter Staley: “The love the gay community forgot” ‘Activist Peter Staley say in the push for marriage, the bonds forged in the forged in the fights against AIDS have been lost’