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...Johan - father of six, devoted husband, devout believer - has fallen in love with another upright Mennonite, Marianne (Maria Pankratz). Can he end the affair? If not, what will the repercussions be for his family, his community, his beliefs...
...much stayed in the 13-to-15 range from 1983 (when Economy.com's data begins) through 1999. From 2000 to 2001, the ratio started drifting upward, and it really took off in 2002, getting up to almost 25 in late 2005 and early 2006. Since then, the number has fallen, but not yet back to its 15-year average - though that average might be overstating where the ratio will eventually level out, anyway, since it includes the boom years. If the price-ratio needs instead to settle back to its preboom average, then we're easily looking...
...Jihad. Yet, tellingly, this opinion offers no solutions, no alternatives, no suggestions for how a sovereign nation ought to respond when missiles are launched at its citizens. In fact, there were seven years of missiles before Israel’s operation began; 8,250 missiles and mortar rounds had fallen on communities within a 20 kilometer range of Gaza. While some might say that firing 8,250 rockets and mortars at civilians is acceptable “resistance” to the “occupation” of Gaza, almost 2,000 of these rockets were fired...
...smoke and flame that wreathed the Taj Mahal Hotel and the nearby Oberoi came harrowing tales of the demonic cruelty carried out inside. Hotel guests were lined up against walls and sprayed with machine-gun fire; then, according to some accounts, the terrorists placed grenades in the mouths of fallen hostages as traps for pursuing security forces. Hospitals are still filled with the wounded as social workers grapple with the trauma of those left alive...
...beneath the media frolics, the tale of the fallen beauty queen highlights the dark side of how sprawling crime syndicates have penetrated so many areas of Mexican life. With the cartels estimated to make $30 billion from smuggling narcotics, the U.S. Treasury has named dozens of Mexican companies, from dairy farms to clothing chains, as money launderers. In November, the owner of a third-division soccer club, the Mapaches of Michoacán state, was charged with drug trafficking. Crime kingpins are also alleged to finance popular Mexican singers, who croon about the gangsters' exploits...