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...people who know Brown best doubt that he'll ever metamorphose into the kind of confessional charmer the public would like enough to stand a round of drinks at their local pub. Some of his supporters pray he won't try, perceiving in his rough-diamond personality a much-needed antidote to the mounting public cynicism that has blighted Blair's final years. Morris, for one, hopes for an era of "politics done differently. If Labour has had a failure since 1997, it's that we've let that trust and openness with the public go." Brown himself suggests...
...activity. Baghdad's sectarian hatreds have seeped inside the walls as well. Fuad Saeed, the Sunni imam of the biggest mosque in the Green Zone, has made gestures of religious unity, handing out to Shi'ite worshippers the coin-size holy clay tablets used by Shi'ites when they pray. He once even prayed with his hands straight down, a distinction the Shi'ites made from the Sunnis more than 1,000 years ago, in front of his congregation. "The words are not important," he says. "I care about the heart." And yet for his magnanimity, Saeed has been shunned...
...December 1, 1997: West Paducah, Kentucky A 14 year-old shoots eight students as they pray in school. Three die and one student is left paralyzed...
...people. The emotionalism, the rapture that it entails, science can’t give us. The fact that science becomes cut and dried and creationism provides us with mystery and thrill and alleviation of our by-the-numbers existence, it becomes a crapshoot for us: go to heaven, pray, and my life will be saved. When the applause died down after the actors took their final bows, Asner was the last to leave the stage, making sure to collect all of his various props. He left his Bible behind...
...While raucous nightlife isn't Tainan's big lure, you'll see religion practiced on a scale that easily outpaces the capital. More than 200 temples-Taoist, Buddhist, Confucian-are tucked into lanes and alleys amid the high-rises, each offering its own brand of salvation. Pray for fair judgment in the afterlife at the City God Temple, where two giant abacuses tally good deeds versus bad, or plead for high exam scores at the Confucius Temple, the island's oldest. Festivals celebrating temple gods' birthdays are several-day affairs here, their likenesses paraded through the streets on palanquins, urged...