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Last week Muslim groups rallied around the foundation, saying the decision to freeze donations was "particularly disturbing" to Muslims who entrust charities to fulfill their yearly requirement, called zakat, to give to the poor during the holy month of Ramadan. Since the Holy Land Foundation's inception in 1989, it has raised more than $50 million, with monies promised to children in the "holy land...
...moral mandate is there, but I do not want to entrust the world to American knowledge of Afhani politics,” he said...
Evangelicals' insistence on God's active presence (preachers commonly ask, "What is He doing in your life right now?") inclines many of the Guthries' friends to regard them as singled out, maybe in a good way. "I think David and Nancy have been entrusted with something He couldn't entrust to anybody else," says Dan Johnson, a Christian filmmaker. He turns to David. "I think God is intrigued with your faithfulness." David does not reply. He refuses to believe God custom-tailored this situation, although he holds out hope that through it he may learn something of His ways...
...flamboyant Villaraigosa, turned out to be the better street fighter. With a tough, tightly focused campaign that kept Villaraigosa on the defensive, Hahn managed to convince a winning coalition of blacks and moderate white Democrats and Republicans that there were too many questions about Villaraigosa's integrity to entrust Villaraigosa with running the nation's second largest city. "I can be as tough as necessary," the silver-haired bureaucrat said on Election Day, showing a side of him that few voters knew existed. "I've been a prosecutor. I know what it takes...
...Randolph A. Hearst was the youngest son of William Randolph Hearst. Despite his father's reluctance to entrust his sons with control of the family business, he became the member of the family in charge of financial matters...