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...tapes, bin Laden and al-Zawahiri have been subtly addressing criticism from some Muslim clerics that the Sept. 11 attacks violated Islamic edicts against surprise attacks. "The Prophet's guidance," says Scheuer, "was always, Before you attack someone, warn them very clearly and offer them a chance to convert to Islam." He contends that bin Laden, by making his warnings very explicit, has "done everything that's required" so that, in his mind, "the criticisms he got after 9/11 won't be valid this time around." Adds Scheuer: "I think what he's done is clearly set the stage...
While the new defensive strategy and another solid night on the backboards for the Ivy League’s leading rebounding team gave Harvard much of the possession, it fell to the offense to convert...
...Cool? Definitely. Profitable? Not very, especially considering the $8 million cost of an IMAX theater. But over the past 21 months, IMAX has introduced a new technology that allows multiplex operators to retrofit existing theaters for about $1.6 million. The company also developed a way to digitally convert films to its giant-screen format--making Hollywood blockbusters easily IMAX ready. (At the moment the 3D process used in Polar Express works only on computer-generated films; 3-D live-action movies are a year or two away...
...more delightful consequences of the recent election that Democrats--now caricatured as the party of élite secularists--find themselves led in the Senate by a pro-life, pro-gun, pro-war, red-state convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But Reid's ascendance has little to do with ideology; it is a practical matter. The Senate is the only place in Washington where Democrats, though a minority, can force the Administration to make a deal. They can do so because of arcane rules that require a 60-vote majority to stop a filibuster...
...sometime after A.D. 60, a decade or two before Luke. "He would have found it very odd, very goyish, perhaps even offensive," says the University of Texas' White. But that, he contends, is the point. Unlike Matthew, Luke is thought to have been a pagan rather than a Jewish convert to Christianity, writing in fine Greek for other non-Jews and so using references they would find familiar. His version's heraldic announcements, parallel pregnancies, angelic choirs and shepherd witnesses bear a tantalizing resemblance to another literary form, the reverential "lives" being written about pagan leaders in the same period...