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...White House--where grief counselors have been made available and the morning prayer meetings are better attended than they recently were--there has been some reordering of responsibilities. Josh Bolten, the deputy chief of staff, now chairs a group called the Domestic Consequences Principals Council, charged with reviewing the need for everything from an economic stimulus package to the parlous state of the airlines. Bush himself, in addition to his regular national security briefings (there's now an afternoon meeting as well as one in the morning), meets each day with FBI Director Robert Mueller and Attorney General John Ashcroft...
...this moment of crisis, the fortyish former village prayer leader was probably sitting as he often does, cross-legged on the floor, praying and reading the Koran, which has guided him, since the formation of the Taliban in 1994, from scholarly obscurity to spiritual leader of the movement and temporal ruler of the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan. Yet Omar may find little explicit instruction there for a decision that could equally satisfy his tribal ethics, his puritanical version of Islam and his nation's interests. If he delivers bin Laden to the West, he betrays the man who helped bring...
...Long Island, bore a bigger burden than most, losing 62 family members, friends and alumni in the tragedy. But its religious moorings gave teachers a language with which to talk about grief. Students prayed for the victims at the beginning of each class and in their Monday-afternoon prayer clubs. The optional lunchtime prayer service was standing-room only, with some lingering long afterward. But grieving students mostly huddled in private conversations with their teachers. At this sturdy school, where even adolescents with braces are called "Chaminade men," the Rev. James Williams, 32, begged them...
That is how I came to address that subject in morning prayer,” Lewis said...
This was a prayer. This is not political. I’m not going to analyze...