Word: parallelling
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...froze to death. It was only because the Western media publicized those horrors that the Administration belatedly came to the Kurds' rescue. Along with other members of the anti-Saddam coalition, the U.S. has established an umbrella of armed force to safeguard the Iraqi Kurds above the 36th parallel. The area is now a de facto Kurdish state. It has an army and a democratically elected parliament, and it is developing its own laws and taxes. Out of deference to Washington and Ankara, Kurdistan still flies the Iraqi flag, but no officials from Baghdad are allowed...
...text declares that he will "heal the wounded, resurrect the dead ((and)) preach glad tidings to the poor." The passage closely resembles the words of Jesus in the Nazareth synagogue (Luke 4) ty concern is simply to find out what this text means." He asserts that here and in parallel passages, the Dead Sea Messiah "appears as triumphant -- as is usually the case. That is the normal Jewish tradition." Eisenman says either translation is possible, whereas Wise concludes that the matter will always remain uncertain because of textual problems...
...zealot appeared. With the recent poverty figures that have been released, and the highest levels of unemployment since 1984, making ((Murphy's motherhood)) a campaign issue is insane." Producer Diane English -- who even challenged Quayle to debate the < issue, to no avail -- draws a rather far-fetched parallel between the Administration's campaign against TV and the '50s blacklist: "I really feel like I'm entering a new era of McCarthyism, where one day somebody is going to come up to me and say, 'Are you now or have you ever been involved in the television business...
...says Poe's hero, "a landscape whose combined vastness and definitiveness -- whose united beauty, magnificence and strangeness shall convey the idea of care, or culture . . . on the part of beings superior, yet akin to humanity . . ." Yes, one can well imagine Magritte liking that. His work too sets up a parallel world, extremely strange and yet familiar, ruled by an absolutist imagination...
...Running parallel to this homing instinct is what friends describe as a growing spirituality over the past few years. Though the fact is not trumpeted -- even in the face of Republican family-values attacks -- Hillary, a Methodist who claims to have been "religiously committed since childhood," carries her favorite Scriptures (Proverbs, Psalms, Corinthians, Beatitudes) wherever she goes. She and Bill regularly pray with Chelsea at bedtime. "As I have grown older," says Hillary, "I have tried to synthesize my personal beliefs with the way I act in the world and to try to keep growing. It's a very important...