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...SYRIA In 1917, Lawrence joined Arabs in dynamiting the Hejaz Railway, which was built by the Ottoman Turks to carry Muslim pilgrims from Syria to holy sites and act as a supply route. But one 320-km stretch is still intact, and several times a week you can take the journey between Damascus and Amman, Jordan (minimum duration is seven hours), passing sites that would have been familiar to Lawrence. Sitting in the sidings at Amman station are coaches recognizable from the era. In its heyday, the train carried up to 300,000 pilgrims to the annual Hajj in Mecca...
...radioplay and novels. Adaptation is a hard game to play and its products often differ radically from the original. In the case of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide,” the shift from novel to movie has left the narrative fairly well intact, but the style and tone are irrevocably changed. There are both merits and demerits to this modification, but for true Douglas Adams aficionados—to quote somewhat inappropriately the wonderfully named character of Slartibartfast—“It may disturb you. It scares the willies...
...three years, teachers and politicians have wailed about No Child, which requires rigid reform and testing regimens in exchange for federal money for low-income students. Critics say the policy is underfunded, overbearing and unfair. Now they are taking action. And the law may not survive intact, despite the Administration's vow to fight...
...human being who focuses vast, little understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. Almost inevitably, this focus produces pathological symptoms of nervous stress and unreality." Plausible, perhaps, but there are lots of folks who are monomaniacal in other "trivial" spheres and who come out psychically intact. Tiger Woods was raised from infancy to be a great golfer and is not just intact but graceful and charming. The ranks of great golfers, swimmers and Dominican shortstops are not more noticeably skewed to the deranged than the general population...
Over the next 29 hours, intermediaries shuttled between the two men in an attempt to find a face-saving compromise that might keep the government intact. Finally, Sharon sent a letter to Peres, signed "with great respect," that while mentioning all six of the offending charges, stopped short of making a formal apology. It was apparently enough to persuade Peres to back off. At 11:59 p.m. Thursday, word went out that the shaky union between Peres' left-of-center Labor Party and the rightist Likud bloc, to which Sharon belongs, had survived...