Word: fear
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These stories have two things in common. One, they take place in L.A. Two, they are all clichés. Frey has less fear of cliché, or of sentimentality, or of stating the obvious, than almost any other writer I have ever read. He literally writes as if he personally discovered that show-biz people are fake, homeless people can have hearts of gold, love can bridge any divide, and people go to L.A. to watch their dreams...
...sense, the troubles in the North are religious in name only: there is no theological quarrel involved, no real fear of religious persecution, and many of the militant extremists on both sides have little or no religious commitment. Throughout most of the struggle, the churches have seemed to be impotent bystanders, occasionally deploring the violence but grudgingly supporting the troops. The troubles began with a struggle by Ulster's 500,000 Catholics to gain equality with the 1 million Protestants, and the issues involve such conventional reasons for civil war as tribalism, economic injustice and political quarrels about...
...upper-crust liberals who seemed ready to flee Obama in Pennsylvania - the sort of people who would run out and buy a hybrid before they'd support a reduction in the gasoline tax - decided to vote their faith that Obama was running an honorable campaign rather than their fear that his membership in Jeremiah Wright's church would render him radioactive...
...ministerial recommendation that the group be outlawed. Similar attacks, with few casualties thus far, have taken place in Sumatra and other parts of West Java, home to tens of thousands of followers. Since the attacks, members of the sect have stayed away from their schools and mosques for fear of further violence...
...government may also be reminded of the consequences of the ban on the Indonesian Communist Party in the 1960s - a decree that was accompanied by the slaughter of an estimated 500,000 communists and suspected communists. While violence against Ahmadiyah followers has reached nowhere near those levels, some fear that government legislative action could provoke a wider torrent of violence against the sect. "It was a joint ministerial recommendation that triggered this latest violence," notes Hendardi. "Imagine what would happen if it became an official decree...