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Gingrich has dismissed the accusations as "baseless, politically motivated charges...
...fight." Less than three hours later, before a roomful of reporters, DeLay addressed a Texas grand jury's charge that he and two political associates conspired to funnel $155,000 in illegal corporate campaign contributions into Texas legislative races. He called it "one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history" and the prosecutor who brought the case "a partisan fanatic." That night, anxious to show he's not a recluse, he introduced Rudy Giuliani at a Friends of Israel banquet. DeLay even made an uncharacteristic round of the cable shows, hinting darkly on CNN that he would soon...
...bombings left scars on the whole nation, though none so deep as the baseless charge that Islam incubates terrorism. Such an accusation threatens to divide Muslims, Jews and Christians just when we most need to close ranks to fight terrorists wherever they are. The one consoling thought is that the British people have shown compassion and the will to rise above obstacles and join together to safeguard the key principles of our society: tolerance, forgiveness, and racial and religious harmony. Munjed Farid al Qutob London...
...holding to her face, but I was struck by the astonishing compassion of the man helping her. For every stone-cold killer, there is an equal and opposite force for good. Josephine Bestic Cape Town The bombings left scars on the whole nation, though none so deep as the baseless charge that Islam incubates terrorism. Such an accusation threatens to divide Muslims, Jews and Christians just when we most need to close ranks to fight terrorists wherever they are. The one consoling thought is that the British people have shown compassion and the will to rise above obstacles and join...
...Siddhartha became the enlightened Buddha?burned down centuries ago. Today, hawkers sell leaves from a replacement tree for $1 apiece. A swath of hotels and shops encroach on the temple complex, and police say looters have stolen hundreds of artifacts, an allegation that temple manager Kallicharan Yadav dismisses as "baseless." What is undeniable is that Hindu priests have turned parts of the Buddhist holy site into shrines to their own gods. A day's drive away, Nalanda University, the wellspring from which ideas of Nirvana and reincarnation washed across the world from the 5th to 12th centuries, is nowadays...