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...calm, bearded 53-year-old I met at his Gaza home had bodyguards at his doors who impounded my cell phone before I got close to the boss. Abu Shanab was outspoken in his passionate support of violence. "The military wing is central to our resistance," he said. "They are more powerful than us, but we couldn't stand still to what Israel does to us without any reaction. We are sending the message that we are refusing to be occupied. Military victory is not possible, but the only alternative is surrender." When I asked how martyrdom advanced Hamas' aims...
...colluding with rebels applauded the Paris arrests, while government members drawn from insurgents' ranks denounced the French as Gbagbo "puppets" who framed Coulibaly. The increased tension comes just two weeks after the resignation of President Charles Taylor in neighboring Liberia quelled civil war there - and raised hopes that calm and stability might return to the entire violence-stricken region. Along with Coulibaly's arrest and the wave of Abidjan detentions, passions were inflamed when Ivorian rebels killed two soldiers in France's 4,000-strong peacekeeping force imposing a cease-fire. "The French arrests prevented the murder of Ivory Coast...
...that was later. This being France, everyone at first remained debonairly calm. The old men stayed at their posts in the cafes, stoically sipping espresso in the white, noon sun. Everything in me wanted to take action, hoard bottled water, build underground shelters. But only the slightest adjustments were made: wine and candles were taken outside to the Champ de Mars, and family dinners were held beneath the Eiffel Tower. Knowing how to live apparently means knowing that nothing will last and everything has happened before. But by the end of last week, as the old stone houses lost their...
...have used such a flip, disrespectful tone in an article on Christian or Jewish ritual," wrote a religion professor from Georgia. Asked a minister from Maine: "Why the sarcasm? What was Stein afraid of?" And a New Yorker offered a brief, blunt primer on meditation: "The goal is to calm the mind enough that you don't need to make really lame jokes...
...guided the College with a steadying hand through turbulent seas and in calm waters, he nudged the administration with wisdom and vast experience, and he elicited true affection and respect from both the students and his colleagues in University Hall,” former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles said in a statement...