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...republic. Americans, meanwhile, think of skyscrapers as testaments to the can-do spirit of American capitalism. (The Empire State Building was erected during the Great Depression!) Islamic fundamentalists, as we learned two years ago, see skyscrapers as idolatrous emblems of a society that serves Mammon rather than God...
...troops encounter resistance at the house. Since Colgan's death, Winston says, the platoon's anxiety has grown. Every piece of trash now looks like a hidden bomb. "Everyone is afraid," he says. "If they're not, they're lying. People are cringing." Some soldiers have turned to God. Whiteside reads Scripture and recites the Lord's Prayer before leaving the gates. On the day of Colgan's death, Kamont, a lapsed Baptist who admits to once having been a heavy drinker, flew back to Germany on home leave and told his wife he wants their 2-year-old daughter...
...father, a Navy veteran. Whiteside joined the Army in February 2001 after serving 45 days in jail because of unpaid traffic tickets. "It was the best thing that could have ever happened to me," he says. "I was locked up and couldn't do anything for my daughter. God opened my eyes and made me realize I wasn't doing anything with my life. In the military, I can't quit...
...where he is leading the country. That he doesn't alter his course in response to poll results means two things: he's sure he's right (which is scary enough), and he doesn't care about the opinions of those he serves. These attitudes add up to a god complex, and that's dangerous. Lauren Martin Freeland, Mich...
...later piety gave them names, ages, races and crowns), but rather an unspecified number of astrologers, perhaps from Babylon. Even in that guise, some critics suggest, their existence is questionable, possibly merely a preaching device used by the evangelist to suggest the import and universality of the astonishing event: God become man. --TIME...