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...said to Antony, 'Just close all the doors.' And as I pushed them in there I said, 'Right, secret men's business.'" The project was finally demystified six months later when 49 sculptures, the best of the bunch, were wheelbarrowed out and bolted into the lake's bedrock. "We didn't really understand his concept until he actually put it out there," says Christine Earnshaw. "Then we went out there and thought, Wow, this is good. This is everybody on the lake that we know...
...handing the reins to Allawi's government, the U.S.-led Coalition whose 150,000 troops will continue to provide the bedrock of security is hoping to put an Iraqi face on the enterprise. The hope is that Iraqi soldiers and policemen, who have in many instances been reluctant to be seen as fighting on the side of the occupation, can be motivated to tackle the various insurgencies in the name of an authentically Iraqi authority...
...agnosticism and anger upon his return, finding his way back to his faith after "a lot of reading and a lot of thinking." He told TIME in an interview last March, "It's an important part of my getting through tough periods in my life and remains a bedrock of values--of sureness, I guess--about who I am, where we all fit, what our role is on this planet." Kerry is fascinated, he says, by various religious traditions, and in the 1980s he went to Israel with Jewish friends and read the Sermon on the Mount on the Mountain...
...might the rift between Kerry and the church he calls a "bedrock of values, of sureness about who I am" affect the election? Catholics are among the narrow slice of the electorate considered truly up for grabs this year, and they constitute a major share of the voters in the Midwestern and Southwestern swing states. Those who are most strongly antiabortion are probably already in Bush's camp. But many Catholics are, like Kerry, struggling with contradictions between the church's teachings and what they practice. Still others say abortion is not the only issue that matters when they vote...
...continues to bulldoze through all obstacles in the name of global peace and security, there will be little left to rebuild out of the rubble. The cultural attrition in Iraq has struck a heavy blow to Iraqi reconstruction, eradicating symbols of cultural unity that might have served as the bedrock of a rejuvenated Iraqi national identity sans Saddam. Moreover, as the proverbial cradle of civilization, Iraq’s loss is a loss for us all, diluting the reservoir of world heritage and erasing pieces of our common history. Combined with the war in Afghanistan, when disturbed migratory patterns brought...