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...Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think not. After all, it is perfectly normal, indeed, deeply human to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. Should we not be moved when it produces a vision - a creature - of the purest sweetness...
...move into heavy trucks on the part of VW," says Commerzbank analyst Robert Ashton, adding that Pischetsrieder may actually be trying to sell off VW's own minuscule truck operation, which made just 19,000 vehicles last year, compared to DaimlerChrysler's 222,000. Then we'd have to mourn the passing of yet another VW icon: the microbus. Gunning For Oil A raid by armed, masked police on the headquarters of Russia's giant Yukos oil corporation last week escalated the standoff between the Kremlin and Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man. His problems started when...
...make traditionalists gasp. But some experts see them as a positive development. "For a long time, people were removed from the process, letting professionals arrange these elaborate but impersonal ceremonies," says Sarah York, a Unitarian Universalist minister and the author of Remembering Well: Rituals for Celebrating Life and Mourning Death. But she cautions that however people choose to commemorate their loved ones, they still have to deal with the loss. "You may want a happy service instead of a downer, but it's also a time to mourn and let go and grieve," she says...
...sends his son to die for you." After his comment was publicized in late 2001, Ashcroft said it referred to terrorists and not to mainstream Muslims, but the point seemed lost on her. "Islam is the terrorist," Barbara asserted. "Muslims are the victim." The class ended in prayer. "We mourn the loss of life" in Iraq, someone said. Added Barbara: "We pray that the weapon of mass destruction, Islam, be torn down. Lord, we declare that your blood is enough to forgive every single Muslim. It is enough...
...mourn the innocent people who died in terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia and Morocco. But the Arab nations and the Islamic world are humiliated and feel exploited by America. And now, after the war, those people are afraid of being conquered and occupied as Iraq was. What the terrorists are trying to do is simply stop the U.S. MOHAMMED ABDULLATIF SAFWAN Jidda, Saudi Arabia...