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...Instead - in the first of four segments designed to milk the interview - Obama had a combative but respectful back-and-forth with O'Reilly, tonight on the subject of national security. O'Reilly asked first if Obama believed we are in a "war on terror," a kind of semantic loyalty oath to see if he would hedge on the term. "Absolutely," he said...
...hold Muslim Kashmir in a vise. "The blockade was made out to be much worse than it probably was," says Navneeta Chadha Behera, author of Demystifying Kashmir. "In effect it was like a psychological war. A fear psychosis was created where people panicked about shortage of medicines and milk for children, about truckloads of apples rotting. How much was fact and how much rumor, no one knows...
...heard that the foreign athletes will have vegetables cultivated especially for them, which were not irrigated with water, but with milk or soy milk," his wife answers. Zhao chokes. He cannot swallow the rice in his mouth. The five rings of the Olympic logo, he says, feel like five loops that yoke his neck...
...They also point to some working projects whose real-world performance exposes both the strengths and weaknesses of Warren's theory. In early 2006, Grant Bornzin, a Saddleback member, was in a PEACE group directed to a Presbyterian church in the village of Remera, where elders spoke of needing milk for children. The team went back to the U.S., and Bornzin admits that "the idea festered" for two years, until a team member returned to Africa and e-mailed that "they really need [a] livestock program." So Bornzin raised $14,000 from 45 Saddleback members and sent it to Remera...
...popular image of the Buddha as an eternally serene spiritual master. First, there's his auspicious birth, as Siddhartha Gautama, in the 6th century B.C. in what is now Nepal. His family is so obscenely rich ("like the Indus with the rush of waters") that they sacrifice 100,000 milk cows for the occasion. A diviner foretells Siddhartha's salvific destiny: "This sun of knowledge will blaze forth/ in this world to dispel/ the darkness of delusion...