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...feet were initially distributed in conjunction with the right to life march in Washington, D.C. Feet are used for walking, and the symbolic nature of the pin is that its bearer is walking in place of the many unborn whose lives are at stake...
Hunting terrorists on Basilan Island is a punishing game of hide-and-seek, as any Philippine soldier can tell you. The 5,000 Philippine troops on Basilan are looking for the last 80 or so heavily armed members of the Muslim rebel gang known as Abu Sayyaf (meaning "Bearer of the Sword"), who are on the run with three hostages in tow somewhere inside a 30-sq.-mi. patch. Stalking the rebels in jungle so dense that no light shines through the canopy of foliage, along jagged ridges often shrouded in fog, is like fighting in a dark closet with...
...York metropolitan area as well as a million Mets fans within, could perhaps forgive Piniella for such blasphemy. After all, he once wore the fabled pinstripes. But as the Yankees headed into their 38th World Series, the team that only a network television executive could love became the standard bearer for a shattered city and a wounded country. Something unthinkable is happening among baseball fans: this year they happen to like New York. It happened in Chicago. It happened, gasp, in Boston, where fans sang New York, New York to a team they've despised only since 1919. "Where...
...past, Islam was more tolerant than the West, and Westerners had much to learn from Muslims. As Europe stumbled through the Dark Ages, it was the Muslim world that was the bearer of classical learning. While European civil society was virtually non-existent, Muslims were making important discoveries in mathematics and medicine. But the present is what occupies us; today the least free and most potentially destabilizing states of the world are disproportionately Muslim. Berlusconi did not say that Christianity or the West is intrinsically better than Islam, but that the institutions created in modern Western countries are better than...
According to the Globe, at least one of the 19 hijackers entered the United States carrying a student visa, which requires the bearer to provide a college with the student’s pertinent financial information...