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...Like the rest of the world, Asia has been transfixed by the horror of Iraq: the mounting casualties, the suicide bombings, the growing sense of anarchy. Until last week, the chaos seemed reassuringly distant from the daily concerns of life in Asia. Then, in the space of just a few days, civilians from Japan and South Korea?as well as Canada, Britain, the U.S., Italy and Israel?were taken hostage across Iraq. The collective message of the kidnappings was as acute as a knifepoint: America and your allies, get out. On Sunday, just hours before the deadline to kill...
...shared their eagerness to explain their religious beliefs and practices to friends, but their frustrations as well. Many complained that they often felt pressured to defend or justify their lifestyle. The group also discussed their relationship with University chaplains. According to Davis, the group found chaplains “distant and impersonal” and “unable to relate to the issues of curiosity and questioning that college students experience...
...shared their eagerness to explain their religious beliefs and practices to friends, but their frustrations as well. Many complained that they often felt pressured to defend or justify their lifestyle. The group also discussed their relationship with University chaplains. According to Davis, the group found chaplains “distant and impersonal” and “unable to relate to the issues of curiosity and questioning that college students experience...
...late 1980s, the clauses on democratic evolution were among the thorniest. The best the negotiators could produce were the vague formulations reproduced above. The Basic Law clearly offered Hong Kong the promise of direct elections. But it left the important questions?when and how?to years that seemed very distant back...
Listening to Nelms and Gould, you begin to wonder if they see no limits. Nelms laughs: of course there are limits, and yes, they're imposed by age. But is Gould finally content? She is distant, then suddenly alert, almost defiant. "People like happy endings," she says. "I have periods of incredible frustration and confusion, and periods of great satisfaction. This is not a linear journey where I've arrived...