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...Palestinians. Settlers who live in Israeli outposts in the West Bank and Gaza have long considered the Prime Minister one of their champions. Almost three months ago, Sharon visited the hospital bedside of a five-month-old boy injured by a stone thrown at his parents' car as they drove to their home in the Shilo settlement. The baby died soon after, and Sharon was deeply affected by the tragedy. Still, though Sharon may sympathize with the settlers' plight, they chafe at what they consider his restraint. So do Likud activists, furious that their leader isn't taking a harder...
...next day, Nikolay allegedly stabbed Lyubov to death, then went to the home of relatives and killed an aging uncle and an aunt, Petr and Galina Kukharskiy, and two young cousins, Tatyana, 9, and Dimitriy, 10. He apparently took money from that house. But he was not done. He drove his 1995 Nissan Altima to his mother's house to pick up his three-year-old son Sergay. Late on Tuesday, police found the toddler's body in a cardboard box. They said the boy may have been lured into the box with toys. The child's body was bruised...
...Amis, who are Jewish, drove an hour from Brookfield, Conn., for the Family Labyrinth Walk--held twice a year by the nondenominational New Canaan-based Labyrinth Project of Connecticut--to expose their kids to an ancient form of meditation and spirituality. In the Middle Ages, when Christians could not make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, they would walk a labyrinth to symbolize the journey. Today, adults and kids of all faiths are walking them to pray, meditate or simply relax...
...Rome has not budged on the issue. In 1994 Pope John Paul II emphatically restated the ban in a pastoral letter, and the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared his decision "infallible" and "not...open to debate." The gag order, even more than the edict, drove church liberals to distraction...
Blessed with this free publicity and a vision of a billion-dollar future, Peterman seized the initiative--and drove his company straight to hell. His rapid, venture capital-fueled overexpansion led the company into bankruptcy in 1999 and sent Peterman spiraling into what he calls "my perfunctory six weeks of depression...