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...militia, the religious militia arrested him. "They told me, 'Your time is over,'" says the police sergeant. "'Now it's our time.'" Bound and blindfolded, Mohsen was taken to the Islamic courts of Muqtada al-Sadr, the most militant cleric in the holy city of Najaf, where he was beaten with a police baton and held in an underground prison for 16 days, until his commanding officer negotiated a $200 fee for his release...
...from the everyday misery and terror facing average believers. However badly they suffered, they thought, Jesus must have suffered more. If they dedicated their torments to his, others concluded, it might lend sanctity to the senseless. Little wonder that one mystic reported that Christ had told her, "I was beaten on the body 6,666 times; beaten on the head 110 times; pricks of thorns in the head, 110 ... mortal thorns in the forehead, 3 ... the drops of blood that I lost were...
Klein's view that Bush can be beaten failed to take into account the factor that trumps all others: national security. The American people will want Bush, much more than Kerry or any other candidate in the Democratic field, to remain responsible for their safety. KENNY SUTTON Waterbury...
Shopping for vintage used to mean digging through dusty bins under fluorescent lights at the Salvation Army store or having a friend tip you off to that tiny, off-the-beaten-path consignment shop. But today, threads from the past are a ubiquitous and accessible part of fashion, and retailers across the country--including department stores like Bloomingdale's and Henri Bendel in New York City--sell vintage alongside contemporary collections. "It's as if it was another label," says Tiffany Dubin, the author of Vintage Style: Buying and Wearing Classic Vintage Clothes, who introduced couture auctions to Sotheby...
...Considering it could be the last time I play Dartmouth in my career and how many times they’ve beaten us in the past, I really really want to beat them bad,” Ruggiero said...