Word: prayerfulness
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...fringe benefits of being a Middle East correspondent is that my travels in the region have allowed me to start a decent little collection of Oriental rugs and, in the process, get better at the art of buying them. I bought my first one--a prayer rug, to celebrate my safe return from Iraq--at a suq in the Old City of Damascus. Carpet seekers flock to similarly byzantine markets in Morocco and Turkey, among other countries. But Syria is a particularly good place to pick up rugs and has been ever since Silk Road travelers from the great weaving...
...there's no page in the Democratic handbook that recommends sitting down with several dozen right-of-center Christian leaders one week after clinching the party's presidential nomination. So the fact that Barack Obama slipped away Tuesday afternoon to a borrowed Chicago law-firm conference room for some prayer and frank talk about his faith and to face some tough questioning from heavy hitters in the Evangelical, Catholic and mainline Protestant worlds could be the clearest sign yet that he really does intend to practice a different kind of politics. But it's undoubtedly also a signal that...
...purpose was not to line up endorsements," says one Obama aide. "But some very important Evangelicals left this meeting impressed. I think they'll go back to their enclaves telling an interesting story." The nearly two-hour-long meeting opened and closed with prayer. For the balance of the time, Obama spoke about his faith journey - a topic that he has written and spoken about extensively but that was new to many of those present - and fielded sometimes pointed questions...
...another avenue to succeed in life." Most of the aspirants train in the mornings and evenings, then spend the days searching for menial odd jobs. Among the hopefuls is Mark Anthony Ennenim, 26, a wiry fighter whose long dreadlocks earned him the nickname Rasta. Ennenim sleeps on a thin prayer mat in a small hallway above the gym, where he's been training for two years...
...Clinton hasn't given a concession speech since 1980, so anyone looking for an acknowledgment of defeat was hunting for teacups at the hardware store. She congratulated Obama on the race he had run without noting that he'd won it, and called every vote for her "a prayer for the nation," as though she alone could answer...