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...another for the first time. While in Belfast, Clinton held a reception at which even the leaders of the smaller and more militant Unionist parties, people with strong links to the Protestant paramilitaries, were sharing canapes and drinks with Catholic leaders who only 15 months ago were their bitterest enemies. Clinton met with all the major Catholic and Protestant leaders and paid tribute to their efforts at holding the cease-fire. He spoke for 25 minutes with the Rev. Ian Paisley, the sour patriarch of Protestant unionism...
...hard to fathom the events of the last 48 hours: The Prime Minister of the first Jewish state in 2,000 gunned down by a Jew. For 47 years, Jews in Israel have carried out the bitterest debates, have seethed and raged and hated each other. With precious few exceptions, however, they had not allowed that hate to translate into bloodshed. And now they have...
...kill people, and when you've killed enough, they stop fighting." Eugene Sledge, then an 18-year-old Marine, remembered the abattoir of the Pacific this way in his memoirs: "I felt sickened to the depths of my soul. I asked God 'Why, why, why?' ... I had tasted the bitterest essence of the war ... and it filled me with disgust...
...advantages of the single-minded and the weaknesses of the true believer. He has proved that he is willing to march ahead; whether he can convince enough people to follow him is another question. As he makes his plans clearer, the grousing is getting louder, with some of the bitterest complaints coming from fellow committee chairmen. Snapped one Republican: ``He wants to be secretary of everything...
Within the parish, the bitterest battles are usually fought within the hearts of individual parishioners trying to square their own faith with the dictates of Rome. For Bruce Schermerhorn, 47, the struggle escalated when he got divorced in 1976. Remarried by a judge in 1985, he attended Mass regularly without taking Communion. "I've always had an adversarial relationship with the church," he says. Last year, after joining a weekly men's prayer group, he finally decided to take Communion. "Well, I wasn't struck down by a bolt & of lightning and the ceiling didn't open up," he says...