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...said. "How would [bombers' families] feel if all their neighbors were getting food and medicine, and they were singled out and not getting food and medicine?" Added Prince Saud: "Isn't it better to give assistance to the families of these people, rather than to have the hate fester? What is shameful about helping families, unless you believe in guilt by association?" Prince Saud denounced the charge that the Saudi money is helping breed new martyrs. "Does this money, when it goes to the families of the suicide bombers, tell another boy or girl, 'Go kill yourselves, and we will...
...seeking to experience Southern comfort food may devour tasty collard greens whose bitter aftertaste sadly recalls the disappointments of the night before. Unfortunately, it’s all downhill from there. The bread pudding is certainly creamy—but should bread pudding really be creamy? Tepid Eggs Florentine fester atop an extinguished flame, providing a daunting challenge to those who may still feel queasy. And, at last reckoning, it did appear that Florence was in Italy. The appearance of Eggs Florentine at the buffet can thus only be explained by the fact that they are cheap to produce...
Thousands of Frank Martinellis and hundreds of Father Bretts cast a dark shadow over the Roman Catholic Church this Eastertide--and so have the U.S. bishops who let the crimes fester. The crisis gathers steam day after day, with perhaps 2,000 priests accused of abuse across the country and hot lines jamming with more victims' calls. It is not just what Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law called "a tragic error" but a spiritual and financial body blow to church authority as well, demoralizing to every man who wears a Roman collar. Lives have been hurt, trust damaged...
...without further drastic changes, the deeper problems underlying the Core curriculum will continue to fester. Although Harvard should provide its students with a broad liberal arts education, the current Core program does more harm than good. Instead of allowing students to choose among the enriching courses that are offered in Harvard’s diverse array of concentrations, as a distribution requirement would do, the Core restricts students to choosing among watered-down survey courses that barely scrape the surface of the intended subject material. Similar departmental courses with identical approaches to knowledge—exposure to which...
...imbalances have not been allowed to fester" - whatever that means - and "if the recent, more favorable developments continue and gain momentum, uncertainties will diminish" and good times will soon follow. It might take another interest-rate cut at the next Fed get-together ending Jan. 30, and then again it might not; media consensus on the speech's portent was that Big Al "left the door open" to another...