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...lead was just enough for Brotemarkle to avoid falling behind. In four innings she gave up three hits and struck out five...
...BCC’s use of mob tactics: “A group of people talk to you and tell you you’re wrong,” he says, or a leader tells 10 different people to phone a member, in order for the leader to avoid accusations of harassment. Recruiters are just as sly, inviting outsiders to play volleyball with the purpose of surreptitiously gauging their interest in spiritual matters. Lee says he also came to recognize that Bible studies are centered on instruction, rather than discussion. And invitations to recruits translated into...
...first place was because they were in a state of violent rebellion. The Oslo process would never have happened were it not for the first intifada. The purpose of a peace process is to create mechanisms other than force for each side to pursue their objectives. To avoid creating such mechanisms for fear of "rewarding violence" only prolongs the season of violence...
...much about dying in a bomb blast at all. My insane brain prefers to question the mechanical integrity of the planes themselves. After my experience being on a plane that was swaying so much from side to side before landing that the pilot had to take off again to avoid a crash-landing, I began to doubt my innocent faith in air travel. Planes stopped seeming like marvelously secure and impressive human inventions and began looking more and more like deformed aluminum cans. How exactly do these hunks of junk stay safely six miles above ground for seven hours? Just...
...extent to which Sharon has personalized the showdown means that if Arafat simply manages to survive the siege of Ramallah, he'll proclaim it as vindication of his defiance - an outcome intolerable to Sharon. The Bush administration will also want to avoid appearing to reward Arafat's refusal to act against terrorists, but at the same time it wants to prevent the collapse of the Palestinian Authority and broker a cease-fire. That will be extremely difficult to achieve without Arafat's political authority, and that may be why Bush's comments on Arafat sounded like a final warning. Still...