Word: jeane
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...last month, when he dispatched 7,500 troops into West Beirut to restore order. Indeed, pressure to keep the hostages alive seems to be coming from all sides. The Revolutionary Justice Organization, which is composed of Shi'ite Muslim extremists, postponed plans last week to execute French Television Engineer Jean-Louis Normandin. The group had been warned not to kill him by both Syria and Shi'ite Muslim Cleric Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual leader of the pro-Iranian Hizballah (Party of God). Said Fadlallah: "You cannot confront the policy of the French President by executing a kidnap victim...
Another group of kidnappers, the pro-Iranian Revolutionary Justice Organization, has threatened to kill French hostage Jean-Louis Normandin, 35, unless France clarifies its policy on terrorism and arms shipments to Iraq. Iran and Iraq have been at war since September...
...Women's Studies is to initiate controversy and change, forcing the reexamination of constraining social structures that have traditionally blocked women from self-expression. Crusades to give Hurricanes Deborah and Jean men's names--David and Jason--invite satire. But the principle behind the initiatives is not ludicrous. Today, neither protesting discriminatory treatment of women in the job market, nor exploring the proliferations of "God the Father" and other established symbols in Western society, is much of a joke...
...with good ironically represented by a runaway convict and evil by a zealot of a policeman -- has captivated audiences from the moment it was published in 1862. The original Paris press run of 7,000 copies sold out within 24 hours. Since then the combat between the virtuous thief Jean Valjean and the merciless detective Javert has been retold onstage and in at least 14 films. At heart, the novel's conflict is metaphysical: Valjean believes in the forgiving God of the New Testament, Javert in the retributive God of the Old Testament. The story resounds with images of Christian...
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