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...rarely does someone sacrifice something as basic as sleep...

Author: By Charlie Cabot, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hill Goes To Great Lengths To Play | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

After nine months, when his basic training was complete, Hill became an infantry sergeant and was posted to the Field Defense Squadron at an air base...

Author: By Charlie Cabot, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hill Goes To Great Lengths To Play | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...What are the basic Mennonite beliefs and practices now? The Mennonites are a Protestant group. They believe in adult baptism, and they have this long history of political protest of war. They have several hundred years of being conscientious objectors. But I think what a lot of people would say is that they tend to be very conservative in their lifestyle choices. (Read "Conscientious Objectors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhoda Janzen: From Modern to Mennonite | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...electoral commission, there's widespread doubt in Kabul over whether a runoff vote will actually proceed. A power-sharing deal between Karzai and Abdullah is considered the much more likely outcome. But in reality, the manner in which the electoral stalemate is resolved doesn't substantially alter the basic choice facing Obama: either send tens of thousands more U.S. troops, which U.S. commander General Stan McChrystal says are necessary simply to halt the Taliban's advance, or draw down to a policing operation against al-Qaeda and abandon the goal of defeating the Taliban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Escalation Obama's Only Choice in Afghanistan? | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...only solitary study but also spiritual experience in a group setting. Trying to understand a religion without experiencing its mode of worship is like reading about the rules of baseball in a book without ever attending a game and being a spectator yourself—you might get a basic idea of how the players move around the field, but you probably won’t understand why watching the game has so much appeal...

Author: By Ellen C. Bryson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Good Faith | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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