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LaHaye wasn't above urging the crowd in Wichita to preorder the new Left Behind book on the Internet "'cause I'm not sure you'll get it if you don't." But he doesn't beg like a cheap televangelist. Nor does he bluster like Jerry Falwell or Jesse Jackson. If he's having an argument--something that happens a lot when you fight for a single political and religious viewpoint all your life--LaHaye doesn't get louder; he gets softer. He leans back and takes a full minute to consider your point...
...with Oslo - and is likely to be a recipe for further violence in the long term. The cool response may have discouraged the Bush administration from going public just yet. That, and the extent to which his "vision" is challenged by the events on the ground, which would only beg the question of what political capital the Bush administration may be willing to risk in order to realize its policy. A speech that was conceived, originally, as a vehicle to clarify the Bush administration's Mideast policy may be increasingly trapped in a mire of fudging. But the crisis demanded...
Their father wasn't around much, and when he came home the boys would beg to go out with him into the woods and cook up some breakfast on an open fire. Their mother was, in Greg's words, "a strong woman." Gary Ridgway's second wife Marcia said the mother completely dominated the boys' father and that the young Ridgway once saw his mother break a plate over his father's head at the dinner table...
...hundreds of new roofs in these photos," says Hans Blix, the Swedish diplomat who heads the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, which is preparing to conduct future inspections in the event Saddam consents to them. "But you don't know what's under them." U.S. intelligence officials beg to differ. Says one: "The Iraqis have been putting themselves in a position to rejuvenate their weapons-of-mass-destruction programs...
...village of Nongkham Baan, several men are wearing Buddhist robes, but they're not monks, says Thongdee Hawnjahn, a local housewife. "They make a lot of money begging, but it's wrong," she says. According to Thongdee, a bogus monk can net as much as $2,250 a month. Most fake monks come from villages like this in Chaiyaphum province in the poor northeast, and "poverty is what drives them to do it," says Sanitsuda Ekachai, a religion writer for the Bangkok Post. Some villages knowingly use bogus monks for ceremonies, she says, because, as many real monks gravitate...