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Before ascending, they must have a cause that's canonized by their community--the greatest cause on earth, capable of justifying their sacrifice in the eyes of their kin. It's not enough to die fighting for their country; they must be fighting for God. Once they have secured that cause, they search for a way to ennoble it in the eyes of ordinary people who do not share their holy delusion but whose admiration they crave. They know that most people respect logic and reason. So they go looking for a nationalistic cause: this is what Osama bin Laden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Apology from an Arab | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...would wed his shy first cousin Hai Hongmei. But Liu's parents couldn't make enough from Shaanxi's parched earth to buy their son a wife. Desperate, his mother asked her sister for a big favor. A few days later, Liu was informed he would be marrying his kin. "It can be unsafe to marry cousins," says Liu's mother. "But what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Rural China, It's a Family Affair | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...this fertile ground that Death Star, Get Shorty and their kin were planted. These two strategies were particularly devious. In the former, Enron was being paid for taking away excess energy that it never really put in, while in the latter, it was buying and selling commitments it never made. This kind of trade, known as "gaming" the market, is prohibited by the California ISO's regulations, but because there were seven different energy markets the ISO had to keep tabs on and because it is so difficult to pin down whether a company has the energy it says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California Scheming | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...willing to pay for a U.S. resident visa (those detained have pleaded not guilty and await trial). Since the Amerasian Homecoming Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1987, some 23,000 Amerasians and 67,000 of their relatives have emigrated to the U.S. How many of those kin are fake may never be known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children of the Dust | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...poor boie what wud lik to hav a education an it iz for this reson that I am riting to you at this time. As I have stated above i am a poor boie and wud like to no how i kin ern my way thru skul. Is Harverd very far from the rail road stashion? What is the karfere out there? What are the wages at harverd? If a fella shud not live very hi would they be suffishent for a fellas simple needs...

Author: By Kristin E. Kitchen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. Byron Satterlee Hurlbut | 4/18/2002 | See Source »

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