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...what was once the economic powerhouse of francophone West Africa, France has been forced to find a balance between large-scale intervention and doing nothing, says Bruno Tertrais, senior research fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. "France has taken the middle road, hoping that the mere presence of French forces may act as a deterrent against fighting." But the French presence may actually further inflame racial divisions. "The French are like our mother and father, but now they are taking sides between one child and the other," rebel spokesman Corporal Serge Kofi told TIME last week...
...claims, "teleport the poems of Rumi out of their cultural and Islamic context into the inspirational discourse of non-parochial spirituality." Cut free from the ground of orthodox Islamic belief from which they grew, the Persian poet's lyrical reports from the outer fringes of mystical experience risk becoming mere souvenirs of a far-off time and place?harmless ecstatic bonbons that soothe and mirror contemporary Western tastes and sensibilities rather than potentially enlarging or changing them...
Seeing your backup lead the team to a come-from-behind victory. After limping off the field in crutches in the second quarter, Harvard captain Neil Rose gave way to sophomore Ryan Fitzpatrick, who proceeded to throw for a pair of touchdowns and run for a mere 131 yards. the team to a come-from-behind victory...
...Even if we can’t get 100 percent reliability, the mere fact of putting inspectors back in Iraq makes it much more difficult for them to sustain any kind of weapons program,” Walt said...
MOONLIGHT MILE. Slow, actor-driven pieces about bereavement may be acclaimed out of mere guilt—who has it in them to pan a sensitive, non-maudlin treatment of the aftermath of death? Like In the Bedroom and the lesser-known The Son’s Room, both of which dealt with families trying to live with the death of their child, this film has been lauded on the film-festival circuit. It-boy and Columbia dropout Jake Gyllenhaal (The Good Girl, Lovely and Amazing) is Joe, a faithful surrogate son to his dead fiancee’s parents...