Word: prays
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Mystery has always surrounded Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and the country's deadliest terrorist. But the latest puzzler is whether he's still in the picture. After an initial report on an Islamic website asked Muslims to "pray for the recovery of our Sheik Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi from an injury he suffered for the sake of God," reports flew rapidly, many contradictory: he had been wounded by gunfire in the lungs, or shrapnel hit his stomach and legs; he was hurt in a clash with U.S. forces a month ago and spotted...
...boys dying, on both sides," she says through an interpreter, "my heart hurts." Her voice cracks on that last phrase. A devout Catholic, she says she just tries to release. "I don't think about the politics. There's nothing I can do if he goes there. I just pray for his safe return," she says...
Some cadets go to West Point and encounter its demands, and for the next four years they pray that they can toe the line and make it through. Others, however, run the hardest obstacle course twice: once to test their technique, the next time to test their toughness...
...Best of Youth played briefly,to rapturous response, in a couple of locations earlier this spring. Now it is returning to "selected cities." Pray that you live in one of them...
...repair one artery. It didn't look likely that the arm and hand would regain full function, he said, but it was all he could do. "Your friend," he said, "has already been luckier than anybody else in his position. At this point, all we can do is pray...