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...pursued its spirit more avidly than Pope John Paul II, who in March 2000 pressed a prayer card between blocks of Jerusalem's Western Wall: "God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your name to the nations ... we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with the people of the Covenant...
...TIME: A lot of key positions in state banks, pension funds and securities firms are occupied by people from Palembang, your hometown. Are you creating a Palembang Mafia? Taufik: Many have had positions since the time of Gus Dur. It's just a coincidence but, yes, our sense of brotherhood is very strong. Bush is like that too with people from Texas, right? Do people call it the Texas Mafia...
...reprisals against Muslims in Gujarat were fierce, unpoliced, and went on for weeks, killing some 2,000 according to human rights groups. (The official death toll, widely disbelieved, is half this.) On April 4, Vajpayee reacted with revulsion, urging Hindu rioters to rediscover "a sense of unity and brotherhood." Asked the published poet: "Burning alive men, women and children? Are we human or not? Or has a demon taken over us?" His office briefed newspapers on the likely candidates to replace Gujarat state leader Narendra Modi, a member of the BJP who was accused of complicity in the violence...
Although “you simply couldn’t go to a party without a tuxedo,” he says, there was nevertheless a sense of brotherhood in the Class of 1952, irrespective of class or high school background...
...writer is president of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers Local 580, the Harvard University Security, Parking and Museum Guards Union...