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...ideas about Islam have become axiomatic: that Americans need to know more about the religion and that "moderate" Muslims in the U.S. and other Western societies need to reclaim their faith from those who kill and maim in its name. With that background, it might seem churlish to cavil at a serious attempt to address both needs. But there is something about the PBS documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet (Dec. 18, 9 p.m. E.T.) that doesn't convince...
...promised to do and all the things he did do might not be for the country's good in the long run--but what he did do seemed so much better than the deeds of any other single citizen in the land that only the narrowest partisan could cavil at his popular selection...
...protect us both. May He nourish us. May we acquire the capacity, to study and understand the scriptures. May our study be brilliant. May we not cavil at each other...
Fine, so I adore NPR. But I love my little brother too, and when he starts whining for four hours straight, you'd better believe that it gets on my nerves. If he continued to cavil at half-hourintervals every day for two weeks, the phrase"infanticide" would begin to lose many of itsnegative connotations...
...about sharks, GUY DELAGE, 42, splashed ashore on Barbados--the first man to swim the Atlantic. Towing a supply raft into which he slithered each night after swimming six to eight hours, he had left the Cape Verde Islands--some 3,800 km away--55 days earlier. Critics might cavil about his use of flippers and a kickboard, but to his waiting wife and two children, he was a much hugged hero...