Word: prays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alternative benefit album, has a moody, organ-supported sound that may seem a little strange in the company of alternative groups such as Asylum. She sings the song in a restrained, almost choked-up manner, trying to convey the feelings of the woman who must "lie awake and pray that you'll strong tomorrow/ And we will see another day." The song is largely successful, if (not surprisingly) somewhat dark, and leaves the listener no doubts as to McLachlan's sincerity...
...mind, there was no such thing as an innocent Arab." Among the Palestinians of Hebron, he developed a reputation as a fierce bully who harassed Muslim worshippers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a spot sacred in both Judaism and Islam where adherents of the two faiths pray at separate hours. "Sometimes he hit worshippers," says Mohammad Suleiman Abu Sarah, one of the unarmed Palestinian guards at the tomb. "And sometimes he refused to leave when it was time for the Jews to finish their prayers...
...during Ramadan, the month of fasting and prayer, the same day as the Jewish feast of Purim, which commemorates the killing of the Persian royal minister Haman and his followers before they could carry out a planned massacre of Jews? What better place than the Ibrahim Mosque, where Muslims pray at the Tomb of the Patriarchs -- a site thought to contain the graves of the prophets Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, guaranteed to draw a wall-to-wall crowd of worshippers? What better method than to spray clip after clip of bullets into them without warning...
...What is the root of this word, pray tell...
...extend our deepest condolences to the families of those murdered and to the families of those murdered and to the entire Arab and Islamic community. We pray for a world free from such violence. Elie G. Kaunfer '95 Chair, Coordinating Council Harvard-Radcliff Hillel