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...13th century Persian poet Jalal al-din Rumi, the reed was a metaphor for man. Rumi was a follower of the ancient principles of Sufism, a mystical movement that is to Islam roughly what Hasidism is to Judaism. He believed that the soul and God are one and the same. The world, he taught the faithful, is but a tomb, temporarily separating the soul from its divine milieu. In order to release the imprisoned spirit, he taught the Sufi dervishes (Persian for beggars) to dance themselves into an ecstatic trance; all their movements were made in rhythm with the music...
...issue of political espionage in the 1972 presidential campaign has persisted-a tangled, melodramatic business, occurring like a backstage fistfight, somewhere still in the margins of the voters' consciousness. The matter remained a volatile presence, however, and last week the din of charges and countercharges grew louder as Republicans and Democrats exchanged bitter words over the implications of the Watergate investigation. Without challenging a single point of reported fact, the President's men denied any wrongdoing and attacked the press for printing the stories. Even so, there were new revelations of White House connections with a fat slush...
...exactly 10 o'clock each night Santiago's middle-class housewives emerge from their homes armed with empty pots and ladles. For 15 minutes they set up a metallic din that can be heard for blocks around-their way of protesting steadily worsening food shortages. Some mornings, people gather outside the Bernardo O'Higgins Military School and pelt cadets with wheat and rice, amid shouts of "Gallinas, gallinas!" (chickens, chickens), a gibe at the army's staunch refusal to oust President Salvador Allende Gossens...
Some Congressmen, including Frank Thompson (D-N.J.). admitted to being swayed by Daly's case. With the din of professional education lobbyists such as the American Council on Education and the American Association of Universities rising around House chambers, added to the frantic noises of private colleges, the arguments advanced by Daly won two showdowns by five vote margins. The colleges, at least private ones, were spared the trauma of sex-blind admissions...
Enraged Catholics. In Belfast's Rossnareen district, hundreds of children swarmed around three British Saladin armored cars, throwing rocks, bottles and homemade bombs. The Saracens careened through glass-littered streets, occasionally shooting rubber bullets from slits in their armor. Their arrival after nightfall was greeted by a din of children's warning whistles. Groups of women beat out tomtom rhythms with garbage cans to protest the army's presence-and the British failure to challenge the Protestant "nogo" areas set up by the militant Ulster Defense Association...