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...Wednesday evening, Yaqub-Kahn made the first of many lengthy phone calls to Khaalis. He listened patiently to the terrorist's outpouring of grievances, then made a plea for compassion. Khaalis turned out to know his Koran. "Don't try to teach me," he said. "I know it better than you." But the Koranic verses began to move Khaalis. Said one: "O, ye who believe, forbid not to yourselves the good things that God hath made lawful for you and do not transgress the limits; verily, God loveth not the transgressors." Another was particularly effective...
...plucky Spaniard could hardly care less what Moscow thinks, since the Kremlin has already tried to kick him out as party chief. Both for political and personal reasons, Carrillo wanted a strong joint declaration condemning the treatment of dissidents in the Soviet bloc. A plea to legalize the Communist Party is now before the Spanish Supreme Court, and the decision hinges on the court's finding of whether or not the party "submits to an international discipline" and "proposes to establish a totalitarian system." The joint declaration called for by Carrillo would have reinforced the party's claim...
...escape. Fuller's words can be alternately funny, as they are in "Taxing Deductions," the theme song of the "almost clever criminologist," Inspector Quentin Thornblade, who tries to think like the great Sable in an effort to outwit his criminal mind, or haunting as in "The Runaways," Brenda's plea to Sable to return home, or romantic as in "A Perfect Stranger," the love song in the play. But all the lyrics are so perfectly set to the music that the seem to have always belonged there, like the jewels that stud Lady Beatrice's pendants...
...listeners during World War II; of cancer of the larynx; in Manhattan. After studying at Harvard and Cambridge, he worked for the Atlantic Monthly and Living Age magazines, later joined Simon & Schuster as chief book editor at the age of 34. His books on foreign affairs included a sardonic plea to keep the U.S. out of a European war (England Expects Every American to Do His Duty, 1937). His Anglophobia, however, was tempered after the U.S. joined the conflict. Following the war, Howe continued as a broadcaster, taught journalism, helped found and edit Atlas magazine...
...philosopher Alain, who had exerted such a formative influence on her ideas about life fifteen years earlier, might have answered her plea with this definition of truth (paraphrased from his informal "doctrine" by Petrement): "an idea is not true by itself, independent of the thinker: it is not right to speak of a true idea but rather of true thoughts, of true men and women." Simone Weil lived this definition. And it may be that in the end she feld that only letting herself die could she continue to live her truth