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...someone from my background,” Smith says, “When you realize that you are gay, that is the most horrible thing in the world… I used to pray every night that God would make me blind or lame so that I could never be attracted to another man and have gay sex.” When he couldn’t change himself, Smith says, he felt extremely depressed. But when he heard of the ex-gay movement, it was “a beacon of hope...
...declaration of war against Islam. In this war, which seems likely to begin at any moment, few areas will be safe, and few allies will be completely trustworthy. As a result, we should send as few personnel as possible to be stationed in Pakistan, and we should not blind ourselves to the reality of these precarious alliances. With minimal support staff based in Pakistan, the brunt of the impending U.S. assault should come from carrier-based aircraft in the Arabian Sea and U.S. Air Force units based further from Afghanistan. In the coming war, we should not leave ourselves more...
...Many of those protesting military action yesterday quoted Gandhi’s famous saying, “an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.” If we bow to terrorism now, however, and don’t do anything and everything to eradicate it, then we have been blinded, indeed...
...like it or not, this overwhelming support guarantees that action will be taken—should President Bush ignore such demands for a forceful response and eschew military strikes, he and his party will commit certain political suicide. Those students demanding absolute nonviolence at this time turn a blind eye to the vicissitudes of policy-making in a democracy and merely make their voices all the easier to ignore...
...time he chased down a mugger in Central Park during his workout. But he was restless. Brown, who never married, gave up drinking and late nights to read up on religion, get a black belt in karate, learn yoga. He volunteered as a self-defense teacher for the blind. The honors and citations didn't mean what they once did, as he watched mentors and proteges die in fires. Still, he loved fire fighting. Last Tuesday his company got the call to go to the World Trade Center. Fire fighter Brandon Gill says someone yelled, "Don't go in there...