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...celebration, like so many in this grinding global conflict with the jihadists, was short-lived. NATO's press release went out of its way to say that Dadullah "will most certainly be replaced in time." It didn't take that long: four days after the strike, the Taliban's leader, Mullah Omar, announced that Dadullah would be succeeded by his brother. Dadullah was uniquely abhorrent, a one-legged mastermind of suicide bombings and beheadings who had earned the nickname Afghanistan's Zarqawi. But his death won't likely damage the Taliban any more than Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's liquidation...
...that Kinsley would suggest that Jones should be rewarded for basing a career on a lie. We live in a time when people and animals die from poisons substituted for food and medicine, when buildings collapse because of shoddy construction and when American soldiers are being killed in a conflict initiated because of faulty intelligence. It is more important than ever that we restore honesty and honor to all facets of our lives. I do not want to see what happens to a world in which the graduates of M.I.T. or any other college can build a career on fabrications...
...conflict with what my character wanted all the time. I would much rather be a defense attorney than a prosecutor. But that doesn't have anything to do with playing...
...movement he helped lead was never as tidy as its critics imagined--or solely obedient to earthly powers. In every generation, Christians have wrestled with the questions of whether their efforts are better spent changing laws or changing hearts, and how to proceed when those goals seem to conflict. Falwell practiced the politics of division, flinging damnation at those who resisted his vision of a Godly America. Now a rising generation of Christian leaders is looking to bring people together: the politics of division may be a shrewd electoral strategy but a shallow spiritual one. Their God is bigger than...
...this particular subject, Ogletree agrees. In his view, there is no level of conflict between excellence and diversity, and that institutions that want to achieve both are certainly able...