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...father, the former President, because he was consulting "a higher father," as he famously told Bob Woodward in Plan of Attack. It is at this point that his faith becomes more than a matter of conscience for some critics, who wonder whether his particular set of spiritual instincts both lift him up and close him off to conflicting points of view--"bypass the mind and go straight to the bloodstream," as Princeton professor Elaine Pagels suggests. "I think that part of the blockage is that he thinks, I've experienced the truth in religion because it's changed my life...
...talks all the more daunting. The FARC has yet to even approach Uribe's negotiating table. Top AUC commanders agreed in May to confine themselves, at least during the peace talks, within a 368-sq-km zone inside Córdoba province - but only because the government agreed to lift all arrest warrants against them for the time being. Meanwhile, Colombian police are on the look out for any sign of Castaño. In a radio interview before his disappearance, he lamented that drug trafficking was "destroying" his army. "Many [AUC] commanders have lost their way," he said...
...never take a day off,” Weiss said. “Where people get tired, he won’t do that....He does not hear from people telling him he needs to work harder, or you need to run here, or you need to lift this. He’s doing...
Wacker said he was very pleased to be able to lift the ban so quickly...
Although his weak lungs made it hard for him to lift a hammer, Modigliani initially thought of himself as a sculptor more than a painter. Three years after his arrival in Paris, he would meet Constantin Brancusi, the Romanian sculptor whose search for simplified line and form would touch something deep in Modigliani. It was through his sculptures in particular, nearly all of them totemic busts like Head of a Woman from 1912, that he would arrive at the sign system that he carried back into painting--ovoid heads on elongated Mannerist necks, with the nose a long, sharp fuselage...