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...wordless, thoughtless "just sitting," in which the mind seeks to become as empty as a puddle reflecting a cloudless sky. It is demanding, frustrating and not for the easily bored. It turned out to be just what many of the more energetic and sincere young people on the hunt for answers in post-Beat, prehippie San Francisco were looking for. Suzuki soon had a small coterie of serious young disciples, and the San Francisco Zen Center was officially born a year later...
...After three months in which the hunt for bin Laden has looked nearly hopeless, U.S. authorities now seem convinced that their top terror suspect is hiding in the lawless borderland territory. That conviction may have been bolstered by a cache of documents and computer discs found in Abu Zubaydah's lair in central Pakistan. If intelligence from the Abu Zubaydah raid has added to the U.S. evidence that bin Laden is hiding in the borderlands, Musharraf's decision may get tougher...
...summoners and their guardians tour the temples, learn to summon different things, and beat sin back into hiding. This is not an adventure. It’s an errand. Tidus just tags along. Of course, his pivotal importance becomes apparent; this isn’t your average decennial scavenger hunt; but his ties to the world are supernatural and hence, arbitrary...
...justified in toppling governments that harbor terrorists and making unwelcome military incursions into countries in order to hunt down alleged perpetrators—even if that means some civilians will be killed in the process—then Israel is also. Indeed, if we take into account that a vast majority of Palestinians support the suicide bombings, then so-called collateral casualties in Afghanistan, where most people were happy to see the Taliban toppled, are much more morally reprehensible than such casualties in Palestinian territory...
Could the real motive behind banning the sport, then, be spite, a way of getting at those toffs on horseback, a last gasp of the class war? (And even this sentiment is misplaced, since half the hunt might be shopkeepers and small farmers). Lecocq believes so, and says that a ban will convince many Europeans that "British society still hasn't overcome the class struggle from the 19th century." He argues, too, that the whole hunting debate in Britain is linked to the "increasing polarization between an intolerant, even aggressive urban society and a traditional rural society less skilled...