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...date back more than 2,000 years. So Takubo spent a lot of time on the shrine's grounds, climbing up and down the complex's infamously forbidding 785 steps, and watching the pilgrims who would come by in their hundreds every day, from all over Japan, to pray to the gods believed to inhabit the holy hilltop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art, Liberated | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...fierce in the region?resulting in violence and even murder in recent years. Only time will tell whether Yunnan's matsutake industry is sustainable. For now, Sui-nong believes his best hope is a little cunning. "I'm still keeping my patches a secret," he says, "while I pray for more thunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic Mushrooms | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...light of Islamic law a tyrannical infidel and blasphemous state." Anyone associated with it, he continues--especially soldiers and police, whether or not they are good Muslims--may be murdered, as "they do not represent themselves; they are means in the hands of the tyrants." Even Muslims "who pray" may be slaughtered to punish the Iraqi government or U.S. forces. "If the infidels have good people among them, and our fighting against them necessitates annihilating these good people, we are permitted to kill them because we are ordered [by God] to do so," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ENEMY WITH MANY FACES | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...fierce in the region - resulting in violence and even murder in recent years. Only time will tell whether Yunnan's matsutake industry is sustainable. For now, Sui-nong believes his best hope is a little cunning. "I'm still keeping my patches a secret," he says, "while I pray for more thunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic Mushrooms | 9/23/2004 | See Source »

...last time Harvard and Holy Cross met, wide receiver Brian Edwards joked that he and his unit had been told by Harvard coach Tim Murphy to pray for man coverage. The football gods obliged and Edwards exploded for 152 yards on seven receptions, including one score, emphatically announcing his ascension to the upper echelon of Ivy receivers. The Crusaders would be foolish to commit such an egregious error twice, but it remains to be seen whether any strategy can prop up Holy Cross’ overmatched secondary against the Crimson’s passing game...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Last Word Before First Down | 9/17/2004 | See Source »

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