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...Mecca inflicted on the Muslims (2: 191; 2: 217) or to preserve decent values (4: 75; 22: 40). The Koran quotes the Torah, the Jewish scriptures, which permits people to retaliate eye for eye, tooth for tooth, but like the Gospels, the Koran suggests that it is meritorious to forgo revenge in a spirit of charity (5: 45). Hostilities must be brought to an end as quickly as possible and must cease the minute the enemy sues for peace...
...says he can't run. And the law has always been bigger than any one man, no matter how devastating the crisis. In 1864, Abraham Lincoln recognized that an election should not be a casualty of war, arguing, "If the rebellion could force us to forgo or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined...
Others chose to forgo political discussions to concentrate on psychological healing. Nikki Boroni, a musician from Park Slope, Brooklyn, crouched on the Union Square steps in front of a sprawling series of messages, which passersby had scribbled on the ground with pastel sidewalk chalk...
...they decide to forgo a phone for the year, Ferris will need to equip himself with a cell, so he’s been looking into service plans. The rumors are that Sprint PCS is the way to go, he says while chatting with friends outside of the Science Center...
...There are two reasons for that. Some chefs take their farang (foreigner) customers too seriously: after getting complaints about chilies and other strong flavors, they wind up obliterating the essential character of a dish for fear of offending delicate Western tastebuds. Meanwhile, a lot of visitors forgo many of the city's delights by refusing to eat anywhere that lacks the appearance of a sanitized upmarket eatery, mistakenly assuming that Thais are somehow more tolerant of badly washed food and dirty cutlery. The following places don't have air-conditioning to match global fast-food chains?but neither do they...