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...reconstruction within the Mount. He has long feared Israel would tunnel into the massive, unused chambers beneath the surface of the Mount. "I am an architect, but also I am a Palestinian who is part of this conflict," Awwad told Time. "So I made an initiative" to convert those chambers into mosques. In 1996, Awwad began renovating an underground hall called Solomon's Stables. The 4,000-sq-m hall was used by the Crusaders to stable their horses (it features in Dan Brown's best seller The Da Vinci Code as the place where the Knights Templars hatched their...
...Kasmawati says. But she continues, "I know they're different, but we leave them alone and don't disturb them. We're all Muslims." Headmaster Zakaria is less generous, and says his most important job?and the mission with which he charges his students?is to convert other Indonesians to his views. Those who don't agree with his strict interpretation of Islam, he says, are "slow to understand the Koran" or "just stupid." So far, Zakaria and his fellow believers have had relatively little success in changing the views of most Indonesians. So far, the quiet tolerance espoused...
...nation's first M.B.A. President, Bush took to the White House a businessman's case-study training rather than a lawyer's conceptual toolbox. But if a concept will solve a problem, he can embrace it with a convert's passion. Once he was convinced that phonics worked, he put the reading theory at the center of his Texas education plan. A similar thing happened on the way to war. In that case the concept was the neoconservatives' largely academic belief in the transforming power of freedom in the Middle East. The neocons' vision to remake the world...
...does someone who talks so much about getting good information deal with getting something so big so wrong? Bush will defend to his last breath the decision to target Saddam, weapons or no, but he now talks like a convert about the need for intelligence reform. "Look, I asked a lot of questions beforehand," he says of the prewar intelligence. "Anytime you put a large group of people into a combat zone, you ask a lot of questions." Having said that, he admits he is now asking even more. "We've just got to make sure that everybody's voices...
Here's how it works: first you load your CDs, one at a time, into the CD player. It takes about five minutes to rip each disc and convert tracks into MP3s. Then each time you play a song, you can either mark it as a favorite (using the "+" button on the remote) or give it a thumbs-down (with the "--" button). The uMusic system stores your preferences, then creates customized presets that play songs you have indicated you like, as well as tunes from your collection that have a similar mood, melody or genre. It makes these calculations using...