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...western Pakistan, not far from the Afghan border, where Mary Anne Weaver watched a man accused of murder prove his innocence by walking seven paces barefoot across hot coals. He made it without scorching his feet: case closed. The White House can take some comfort from the fact that unlikely outcomes are still possible in Pakistan. But as Weaver's engrossing and unnerving book makes plain, if the U.S. goes to war against Iraq, miracles may be needed to keep Pakistan, 1,500 miles to the east, from blowing into deadly pieces...
...Standing barefoot next to Teddy on that bench, I reflected on something Teddy said earlier in the day. In a surprising demonstration of the practical utility of philosophy as a field of study, Teddy, a joint concentrator in Afro-American studies and philosophy, told me the enlightened reasons why he never yields to societal pressures to walk his bare feet to the mall, buy himself a pair of shoes and put them...
Despite Teddy’s somewhat dubious accounts of his own irreproachable foot hygiene—no, really, once you have stepped barefoot on one piece of gooey street gum, you’ve stepped on them all—the benefits of life without shoes seemed pretty compelling by the end of our walk together...
...seen Reid the day before at the airport--with another person. Crying and shaking, the passenger went around the plane three times with Moutardier looking to see if the other man was on board. At another point, when passengers started smelling smoke again, Jones walked the plane barefoot to see if she could detect heat from the cargo hold. "Most of it was instinct," says Jones, "and the knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks. I don't believe I would have grabbed [Reid] the way I did had I not known about Sept. 11. I don't know that...
...Abdel Hadi Palace stinks of urine and damp. A little girl with a dirt-smeared face shuffles barefoot in the muddy courtyard. The women of the Zakari family lean out of their window, an Ottoman arch whose grey stone is pitted by the weather of 250 years. The place was built for one of the richest families in Nablus. Now it serves as rented accommodation for the city's poorest, hidden in the heart of the Casbah. "It's not a palace anymore," says Najah Zakari, the mother of one of six large families that squeeze into quarters once meant...