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...suggested that the seniors were actually asking her to help them unravel the meaning of life...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faust Offers Parting Advice to Graduates | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...suggested that the seniors were actually asking her to help them unravel the meaning of life...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: In Baccalaureate Address, Faust Gives Harvard Seniors Parting Advice | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...rose considerably last summer when the army engaged in a bloody three-month battle against the Al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam faction in north Lebanon. But during the recent street battles in Beirut, Suleiman studiously avoided deploying the army against the warring parties, worried that the military could unravel along sectarian lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Man for Lebanon's Old Puzzle | 5/26/2008 | See Source »

...that the U.S. Army also supports. While the area has enjoyed a striking decline in overall violence over the past year, Colonel Rohling now spends an increasing amount of time managing the complex and fragile relationships that have made this peace possible - and making sure this detente does not unravel every time a partisan crime is committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping the Sunni-Shi'a Peace | 5/26/2008 | See Source »

...current government could have continued to hold out against Hizballah and clung to office and symbolic support from the West. But in the absence of any real central authority, the country was already starting to unravel along sectarian lines. Lebanon's multi-religious character and political system - which divides power among the country's largest sects - is famously fragile. The sectarian feeling unleashed by clashes between Hizballah, a Shi'a Muslim party, and government supporters, who are mostly Sunni and Druze Muslims, threatened to push the country into another civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Agreement Buoys Hizballah | 5/21/2008 | See Source »

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