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...there is evidence that he would have pressed for further freedoms for women, had the social and political climate of his time permitted it. One reason for his permitting men to take four wives was probably the fact that since his legions put their male enemies to the sword, Mohammed felt responsible for the surviving women (he commanded his followers to spare women, children and trees...
...traveling in Africa, the Mideast and southern Asia. The sun blazed down, and after some 20,000 faithful chanted "Allah Akbar," the young Aga received a signet ring, a robe of many colors, a golden turban, the 49-disked gold chain of Omnipotent Priest and a long curved sword of justice. The pageantry of installation, the Aga's initial assumption of temporal and spiritual leadership over some 20 million widely scattered Ismailis, seemed at times more like a U.S. college May fete than a religious rite. It ended with a boy scout band, possibly fresh out of nonrepeat tunes...
Aside from dropping, for the moment at least, the sword of righteousness, the United States must increase its economic aid program in the Middle East. Economic stability is still the surest weapon against Communism. Syria and its neighbors are still vulnerable to Marxist doctrine, and only financial security can prevent its spread...
Solo Lights Out. Then the dancers come out, lay their swords and scabbards in a cross on the floor and perform the Gillie Callum, or individual sword dance (which is said to date from 1054). Their arms held aloft like antlers, their thumbs and forefingers held delicately together, the dancers leap around and over the swords in a crescendo of movement that usually sets the crowd to whooping, yelling and stomping. Toward the end, a solo piper-spotlighted on a platform as though he were walking a battlement-softly plays Lights Out, and with a final scream of pipes...
About four centuries after David's men beat Saul's at the pool of Gibeon ("And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side, so they fell down together"), Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar rumbled down from the north to pillage.* When he withdrew, after raids in 598 and 587 B.C., the people of Gibeon must have found their city wrecked and the pool contaminated. Apparently they tumbled in boulders from the town's wreckage, then filled the well's broad stone shaft with earth...