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...monks’ living quarters, are available to any layperson who desires to spend up to a week living a life of quiet reflection. The walls of each room are bare except for a cross and an icon. There is a reading desk, chair, neatly made twin bed and plain wooden dresser in each room. Almquist explains that the guests live here in complete silence. They take their meals with the monks in the refectory, eating their mostly vegetarian meals three times a day (silently). “During the midday and evening meals, there is usually a brother...
Marriages between first cousins have often been labeled “incestuous” or “sinful” or just plain “nasty” by those who lack a real understanding of the risks involved. However, this same reaction greeted interracial marriages decades ago. In that case we ultimately saw love and self-respect triumph over hostility, ignorance and “voodoo” science. The government must actively acknowledge that cousins, too, can fall in love and then must provide them the protection they deserve...
...daily press briefing at Bagram air base, the allied command post north of Kabul, always begins with a reminder of why so many soldiers have gathered on this dusty plain. Coalition spokesman Major Bryan Hilferty numbers the days since Sept. 11, 2001, reminds reporters of the death toll and describes a victim. Last Friday, it was Michael Hannan, 34, of Lynbrook, N.Y., who, Hilferty said, "knew how to put people at ease and how to make them laugh. His daughters Rachel, 5, Alexandra, 22 months, and wife Andrea are left only with memories." Fifteen minutes later, Hilferty wrapped...
Clearly, for some Jews these rationalizations are beside the point. Europeans, they argue, are just plain anti-Semitic. They naturally "portray Jews as the real villains," says Rosenbaum; they always have, always will. Well, I just don't believe this about the post-1945 generations of Europeans, though I suspect that's because I don't want to. But, undeniably, past European anti-Semitism has had a bitter effect on present European attitudes. Put at its crudest, most Europeans know very few Jews; they killed too many of them. In America there is a thriving community for whom the survival...
...Bush recently told a British journalist, "My job isn't to try to nuance. My job is to tell people what I think." Bush's gift for plain talk and simple formulations may someday earn him a place in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. His words after 9/11 were just what the nation and the world needed to hear: "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists." About bin Laden, he vowed, "We'll get him - dead or alive...