Word: belief
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...when I say that I’m a non-believer. My belief is there, though it surfaces rarely and in strange forms. When I was younger, my mom would frequently go on business trips. Every time, after we’d dropped her at the airport, I would lie in my bed and pray into my pillow that her plane wouldn’t crash. I didn’t know how to pray, so all I did was whisper to God over and over to please protect my mommy. Lately, religion has regained a tiny...
...Right now, the Bush Administration might be a lot more comfortable with someone like Butler, whose actions were driven by a belief that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction and that it was his job to get in Saddam's face and alert the international community to his non-compliance. One can only speculate on how Vice President Cheney, for example, might have greeted the news that the 72-year-old Swedish diplomat had subjected his inspectors to a program of "cultural sensitivity" training so as to avoid them unnecessarily offending the Iraqis. But Blix is unmoved...
With regard to the second contention, the argument seems to imply that all those who believe that no state’s foundational ethic should be exclusive and ethnic in nature, and act upon that belief, are guilty of something morally equivalent to “effective” anti-Semitism, because they are “delegitimizing” that state. One can hold this belief without prejudice to which community is involved: To say that Israel should not be a “Jewish” state is not effectively anti-Semitic any more than saying India should...
...They already have great representation in Washington. It’s the rest of the people that need it.” As so many others have said in the past three days, he was unapologetic in his liberalism, in his caring and compassion and in his belief that the government’s role was to help the less fortunate. As he talked of welfare reform, single parents, union workers in the city and farmers in rural America, I always knew he spoke from the heart. Wellstone was king of the “good people?...
...emphasized that their intervention had saved the bulk of the 700 hostages the Chechens were planning to kill - and they refused to disclose the type of gas used, or answer questions about the dosage or the extent of their arrangements to make available antidotes. President Putin stressed his belief that the theater siege was an attack on Russia by the forces of "international terrorism." TIME's Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge phoned in this report...