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...heart: the secularization of Christian Europe. In the same 1996 book, he wrote that "the Islamic soul reawakened" in reaction to the erosion of the West's moral stature during the 1960s. Ratzinger paraphrased that soul's new song: "We know who we are; our religion is holding its ground; you don't have one any longer. We have a moral message that has existed without interruption since the prophets, and we will tell the world how to live it, where the Christians certainly...
...gathering, the Islamists in Mogadishu are intent on solidifying their hold on power, dispensing their harsh brand of justice and leaving no doubt about who's in control. A reminder of that came on a clear blue morning in mid-October, when thousands of Somalis gathered at the parade ground of the old police barracks on the city's battered coast. Guards led a tall, undernourished man, condemned to death for killing another man, to a clearing in the center. After a reading from the Koran, the man conducted his ablutions, said a prayer and was led to a post...
Yale only amassed a modest 266 yards of total offense, although running back Mike McLeod did gain 87 yards rushing and three touchdowns. Bulldogs quarterback Matt Polhemus managed the game effectively—if not spectacularly—with 125 yards passing and another 19 on the ground...
...gloomy assessment of the situation in Iraq offered in the Senate this week by U.S. intelligence chiefs was echoed by events on the ground: The mass abduction of dozens of people inside the headquarters of the higher eduction ministry - by men wearing uniforms of the Interior Ministry police no less - highlighted the absence of security or government control even in the heart of the capital. And the reported arrests of senior police officers that followed - as well as sharply divergent accounts by different cabinet ministers of how many people had been kidnapped, how many had been released, and whether...
...withdrawal" of U.S. troops to force the Iraqis to get the job done to sending thousands more troops in the hope of reversing the slide into chaos. But Baker has made clear that there is no simple formula that can fix the mess in Iraq - the reality on the ground has already moved beyond U.S. control...