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Nonetheless, moderate Islamic leaders have periodically enlisted Abraham as a bridge builder. In 1977 Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, announcing before the Israeli Knesset the brave initiative that would become the 1979 Camp David peace accords, invoked, "Abraham--peace be upon him--great-grandfather of the Arabs and the Jews." Sadat noted that Abraham had undertaken his great sacrifice "not outof weakness but through free will, prompted by an unshakable belief in the ideals that lend life a profound significance," clearly hoping that both sides would approach Arab-Israeli cohabitation in the same spirit. The accords went through, although this...
...around, sensed danger and stepped up to the plate, calling for preemptive military action against the Iraqi dictator. Now he shares said plate with an only slightly less lonely George W. Bush - and they may be standing there, alone together, for a very long time. For this act of brave solidarity (or political suicide), Tony Blair is our Person of the Week...
Still, several hundred students did brave the somewhat wet weather to sit on blankets in Tercentenary Theatre...
...Assistant Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman ’67 of the old Jordan halls as the “dog[s] of the housing system” (News, “Quad Updates with Renovations, Sept. 9), and to tell the story of a few brave Harvard men and their Jordan experience...
...seem to fully register people like Pasquale and Genelle, their own senses of identity have drifted, wavered since that day. Having cheated death, they aren't certain how to live. Genelle has put on a brave face for friends--and for the many reporters who have called. But in June, on a trip to Macy's with her cousin Gail LaFortune, a caterer for New York City's Oxford Cafe, Genelle confessed that she wasn't sure what life was about anymore. She wasn't sure if she had ever really known...