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...worrying as always about their daily bread. A lucky man might earn 4,000 dinars a month, the price of a kilo of meat. Families get by on soup and rice, for lunch and dinner. Women in the streets peddle rings and bracelets to help pay rent; children beg everywhere, offering a few pathetic sticks of incense or just a sad look on their haggard faces. Middle-class families long ago sold off their television sets, rugs and extra clothes; now they flog basic necessities like bedsteads and chairs. One grimy apartment overlooking Martyrs Square contains nothing but blankets...
However, students who skip or double up their physics requirements would beg to differ...
Still, women come to Axum to speak directly to Mary. They dance to beg for help. They approach the gateway to the inner shrine to genuflect and kiss its stones. They stand in lines along the outer walls offering silent prayers. "If we have a problem--lack of rain, poor harvests, infertility, illness--we need to go to her and she will listen," says a young supplicant, "more than Jesus or God. If we are here, by our presence, she knows it even though we can't be in the church...
...Promise Keepers, all men, another cult of sorts, came together in stadiums all over the country to make mass statements of contrition for past sins and to beg forgiveness for wife abuse, child abandonment, infidelity and, apparently equal to the rest, insensitivity. In one whopping convention in Washington on Oct. 4, hundreds of thousands of them pledged their devotion to Jesus, family and one another. Their exhibition of mass apology seemed a down-home version of a wider impulse that has affected whole nations of late. France reiterated its apology for its treacherous and murderous treatment of French Jews under...
...With all my heart I beg forgiveness of all who have been hurt by such acts of abuse," Law wrote...