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...truce under which Madurese would be escorted to the safety of a refugee camp in Sampit, the provincial capital of Kalimantan, and then loaded onto boats to leave the island. The truce was broadcast over the loudspeakers of the local mosque normally used to call the faithful to prayer. Almost 400 Madurese emerged from the jungle and climbed onto trucks. The unfortunate ones were diverted to the soccer field. They were butchered as they climbed down from the trucks. The killing was done by the light of headlamps. Then the killers lit bonfires, tossing in the victims' personal possessions...
...better to deliver that message--and harder to pin a label on--than a man who preached at the National Prayer Breakfast and voted against John Ashcroft the very same day? Edwards even has an everyman story on his side. The son of a millworker, he married his law-school sweetheart and drives his small children to the Senate day-care center--the first Senator in the staff's memory to put his children in the facility along with those of Senate employees...
CONSIGLIERE Savvy prayer master Rev. Jesse Jackson, Clinton's moral adviser, has problems of his own: sees other women, keeps a baby on the West Coast...
...These staged images reinforced Western prejudices and conceptions of the Middle East by an air of "authenticity" to these notions. For Europeans at the time, photographs were objective and offered "proof" for their pre-conceived notions. One example is a disconcerting picture of a man in the act of prayer. The photography positions the viewer as God, or the person to whom the man is praying. Not only does the photography exhibit a complete lack of respect for the native people or their religion, but also underscores the notion Europeans held about their cultural superiority...
...incoming president preferred, he or she could have gongs played, dancing bears perform and someone lead the audience in the Wave instead of a prayer. Would that have offended the consciences of America? Would that have violated the Constitution? Of course not, although it might have offended our aesthetic sensibilities. Presidents choose to take oaths on a Bible, but it is certainly not mandated or official. Presidents choose prayers because they feel it is appropriate, or perhaps because the public expects them...