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Converts can sometimes make the most fervent converters. Asked how important sharing his faith with non-believers is, Maskiell is blunt. “It’s life or death. It’s that simple,” he says. “Jesus said, ‘I am the way of the truth and the light. No man comes through the father but through me.’ And if you don’t have Jesus in your life, you will not live eternally with God. It’s that simple...
Idealism does not daunt Brother Blue. In fact, no dream is too big for him. His words are both blunt and cliché. “Love will overcome all in this world. Love’s gonna win. Nothing can stop this. There will be these fools that come along, and I don’t mind being that fool, who is trying to express that,” he says. “I have this madness—volition—this chosen madness to believe that I can change this world.” And within...
...Palestinian violence wasn't interfering with the goal of his mission: persuading Arab allies that the next target in the war on terror should be Iraq. But like the rumble of far-off thunder, the evidence suggested otherwise. Everywhere he went--Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia--Cheney encountered blunt opposition to the idea of ousting Saddam Hussein by force. Before they would consider joining such a campaign, Arab leaders demanded, the U.S. would have to use its influence to restart the peace process, preferably by leaning on Israel's Ariel Sharon. After Cheney got an earful from so many...
...military presence indefinitely. Wary of becoming embroiled in messy disputes between rival factions, President George W. Bush has expressly warned that Washington is not interested in any notion of "nation building." His military, already looking beyond Afghanistan at the next targets in the war on terror, is even more blunt. "We're here to kill and destroy al-Qaeda," says Sergeant Major Frank Grippe, a 10th Mountain Division ground commander, during Operation Anaconda. "It's that simple." General Tommy Franks, chief of Central Command, tells TIME: "Any evolution beyond that, in terms of support to the Afghan government...
...United States calls the study's results "flat-out wrong," according to the Associated Press. To achieve the numbers presented in the CASA report, Coleman claims, every American teenager who drinks would be obliged to consume 120 drinks per month. Phil Lynch, representing Jack Daniels Whiskey, was more blunt with the AP. "It looks like CASA has adopted Enron's accounting practices...