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...inspired that somebody cared so much about their faith that they would put it all on the line for that.? Last week, Perry attended End of the Spear on its opening weekend. She had received her tickets as a gift from a friend who bought a block of 20 back in December by signing up at the film?s website. Perry found the film moving. ?We see the horror of martyrdom and the victimization of people, but also the redemption? that followed, she says. ?The idea that the five young couples, and then the [widows] could bring their children...
...Local officials aren't providing much guidance. Only one police official has been detained in connection with the Dongzhou killings. A month after the shootings, police continue to arrest villagers and block outsiders from entering Dongzhou to investigate whether the official body count of three is too low, as villagers claim. Power-plant construction, residents have been informed, will proceed. Nevertheless, some locals hold out hope that Beijing, which earlier this month targeted rural graft as one of its biggest priorities for 2006, will clean up the mess. "If only the central government knew the truth, they would help...
...fall for these “get rich” dreams and would rather die before trying to envision another world. Yet how can we ever achieve a more beautiful world if we dare not imagine it? Take the following thought experiment: the world is a big block of marble, and you are its sculptor, wishing to carve it into a stunning sculpture. You have your tools all ready to go, but like any great artist, what must you do before you even make that first cut on the stone? You need to have a vision for your final product...
...Washington resident who drops her two tots off at daycare a block from the White House every morning, I must admit to being perhaps unhealthily obsessed with homeland security. I take comfort in the police cars on the corners of downtown streets. I like seeing frail old ladies frisked at the airport. I want my luggage x-rayed, hand-searched, and torn apart by dogs if that?s what it takes to keep my plane from being blown out of the sky by some misguided holy warrior looking to spend eternity with a gaggle of doe-eyed virgins...
...Zawahiri's ruthlessness, his crankiness undermined his effectiveness as a leader of the organization - leadership in al-Qaeda, like any legitimate organization, requires people skills that seem to have eluded the Egyptian physician. "He couldn't lead his own family round the block," says Coleman. "He's a very disagreeable person. He's capable, he writes well, he's a pretty good speaker, but he's an incredibly disagreeable person. In terms of actually leading anybody he's not that good. He likes to fight with people, so it's hard for him to lead...