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Dole might take some comfort from the fact that this whole fight is making his party uncomfortable. The more threatening Forbes seems, particularly to devout pro-lifers, the more likely they will be to choose a pragmatist like Dole over a purist like Buchanan. Likewise, the more ground Buchanan gains with his anti-NAFTA, anti-Big Business salvos, the more willing traditional G.O.P. allies will be to send Dole their cash and their votes. And because he is being besieged from right and left, Dole may no longer have to blow away the competition to triumph in the devilish expectations...
...detentions come at a time when many diplomats have grown concerned about the increasing influence of hard-line Muslims in a Bosnian government that has long pledged itself to a multiethnic state. President Alija Izetbegovic, a devout Muslim who was twice jailed under the communists for his religious activism, has always nurtured an ideal of Bosnia as a secular society that embraces Serb, Croat and Muslim alike. But now his vision is being challenged by a narrowed nationalistic focus...
...plight, such as Iran. As the army grew, the SDA began ordering officers to promote Islamic consciousness. In many barracks, soldiers are called to Islamic prayers, and bulletin boards announce courses about the Koran. The army's 3rd Corps even established a separate brigade composed entirely of devout Muslim soldiers and trained by fighters from Islamic countries. Troops marched under the green banner of Islam, charging into battle shouting, "Allahu Akbar!" The army's only remaining non-Muslim general, Jovan Divjak, a Bosnian Serb, holds no real authority and refers to himself as an "Ikebana," a decorative flower...
Tragic, and morally charged. However, what propelled this case into the political arena was a different issue entirely. Ian's parents were divorced. He lived with his mother and stepfather, both of whom are devout Christian Scientists. His father, Douglass Lundman, with whom Ian did not live...
However, there is no question that in cases of life and death, we must galvanize all the resources at our disposal to save the life in danger. Carter writes that "the death of any child is a tragedy--but it is not a greater tragedy because it occurs as devout family members pray rather than as noble physicians struggle." What he should have written is that the greater tragedy is when a child like Ian dies because his or her parents are closed to the many kinds of healing, because they do not have devout family members praying and noble...