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...could be easily bought off or dissuaded; their goal in life was not to be left alone but to aggressively expand and conquer. The Turks who laid waste to Byzantium were not concerned merely with gaining money, trade privileges, leverage, or power; they were ghazis whose goal was to establish Islam as the preeminent faith over the entire world. Had the Byzantines cast their lot squarely with the West, things would have turned out differently...
Pring-Wilson attorney E. Peter Parker attempted to establish that Colono and Abreu were not cooperating with the police who showed up at the 7-Eleven...
...until now he's been throwing carrots to the masses," says Guillermo de la Dehesa, a prominent Spanish banker and economist. "It's only now that he faces tough issues, and we're all waiting to see how he does." One of Zapatero's first tasks will be to establish his credentials in foreign policy, especially the Iraq war and the strains within the European Union. Last week he capped his country's about-face on Iraq by hosting the leaders of the E.U.'s antiwar faction, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schr...
...Holy Cross hopes to avoid a repeat of last year’s 20-point drubbing, the Crusaders’ wide receivers will need to better establish their presence between the hash marks. The Crimson linebackers and secondary owned the center of the field last year, punishing route runners as they cut across the middle. That left Holy Cross with little option but to attempt high-risk passes along the well-guarded sidelines. By the fourth quarter, Harvard defenders had so thoroughly beaten their opponents that Holy Cross all-American wide receiver Ari Confesor actually stopped running for a pass...
DIED. ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist whose incisive research in the 1960s demolished medical taboos against discussing death with the dying and helped establish hospice care in the U.S.; in Scottsdale, Ariz. (See Appreciation...