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...that Muslim countries and leaders could play in pressuring Sudan to open up Darfur to U.N. peacekeeping troops. It is deeply disconcerting that the Muslim community and its leaders demonstrate an amazing capacity to orchestrate vocal opposition when they sense a slight to Islam yet fail dismally to channel equal energy into resolving the conflicts in Sudan and by extension in countries like Iraq. In brief: perhaps they need to focus less attention on the infidelity of the West and more on self-criticism and addressing the problems within Muslim-majority nations. Govert P. Arends Retford, England No, not another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving Loss, Regaining Life | 10/17/2006 | See Source »

...Number of FBI agents in the bureau's 12,000-strong force with Arabic skills equal to those of a native speaker. Just 33 have at least limited proficiency in Arabic 1,400 Number of agents who have at least limited proficiency in a foreign language. Nearly 900 of those agents speak Spanish

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

...Number of agents in the FBI's 12,000-strong force whose Arabic skills are equal to those of a native speaker. Just 33 have at least limited proficiency in Arabic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Oct. 23, 2006 | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...equal the three touchdowns he had scored in each of Harvard’s first four games, but Dawson did rush for 144 yards on 26 carries with a single score. His lone touchdown tied him with 2006 Brown graduate Nick Hartigan for the most career rushing touchdowns in Ivy League history, and he now sits in fourth-place on the all-time yards chart...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Predators, Preyed | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...most wonderful thing we could ascribe to God, even if it means compromising his fairness and his love? I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind. Floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, disease germs, speeding bullets, they are all equal opportunity offenders. They have no way of knowing whether it's a good person or a bad person in their path. In fact, there's a passage in the Talmud [Jewish scripture] that says that God's justice would demand that certain things not happen, but nature is not just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q & A: Rabbi Harold Kushner | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

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