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...Million theme has gripped America. Starting with the Million Man march organized by the Nation of Islam with Louis Farakhan at its head in 1995 (he later led a Million Family march in September of 1999) and ending with the highly successful Million Mom March on the Washington Mall this weekend, a million has been the magic number. Even Detroit is held in thrall by a million--the number of people it wants counted by the census in the city. Does it bother anyone that a million is an elusive number...
...youth have placed their hopes for change in him. Yet the judiciary, controlled by conservative clerics, is doing everything in its power to prevent reform. Last week, 16 pro-democracy newspapers were ordered closed by the high courts of Iran. The charge: The papers are suspected of insulting Islam and "spreading corruption." Acting immediately, the courts did not wait to see their accusations validated by a hearing or a trial...
Some 2,000 years ago, Christianity was born during a time when the Jewish faith was well established in Israel. A few hundred years later, Islam entered the picture. Ever since, these three religions have been bickering over land and people, creating wars and other havoc. Who is to blame depends on whom you ask. Pope John Paul II has taken a major leap forward to help bring Christians, Jews and Muslims together in a bond of peace. Unfortunately, it may take a few hundred years to improve these dysfunctional relationships. Because of all his efforts (including his support...
...gumbo of archival minutiae, back-alley hearsay, self-serving memory and rank speculation, all underscored with periodic outbursts of prose so embarrassingly purple it could shame a grape. Most provocative theory: that Liston's two fights with the young Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali were fixed by the Nation of Islam. Most convincing characterization: the drowning-in-slime, Mob-controlled world of big-time boxing circa 1960. Most vexing question: why anyone would commit a sentence like this one, typical in every way but its brevity: "What remained was epilogue and epitaph, chords like wind of death-song, of threnody." Uh, yeah...
...There is this perception of Islam that, as a religion, it doesn't support the advancement of women, and I thank Harvard College for helping break that stereotype," she said...