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...plan to revamp the domain of religious affairs to shield Morocco from the perils of extremism and retain Morocco's tradition as a country of moderation, tolerance and respect for other faiths. Terrorism is a global problem that requires a global commitment if peace and freedom are to prevail. Aziz Mekouar Moroccan Ambassador to the U.S. Washington Stubborn or Sour? Columnist Joe Klein's "the creative Stubbornness of Harry Reid" [March 28], on the Senate minority leader's success in blocking Republican-sponsored legislation, should have been called "The Sour-Grapes Obstructionism of Harry Reid." Why glorify Reid's antics...
...That the case became so celebrated, though, is a function of its atypicality. Relatives faced with a situation like Schiavo's, in which the patient has no living will, very often differ about what to do, physicians say, but rarely do the factions become so unmovable and determined to prevail as did Schiavo's husband and parents. Instead, one side usually gives in. Will the Schiavo case change that? Though Schiavo's parents were able to go to great lengths in challenging their son-in-law's decision to let Terri die, legal experts aren't convinced this will lead...
...women vowed to find justice for the death of their brother Robert McCartney, murdered earlier this year in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by a gang the family says included members of the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.). Robert's fiancé Bridgeen Hagans made the trip with the sisters. "Justice will prevail," Bush told them, before repeating one of his favorite post-9/11 lines: "Out of evil can come great good...
...govern themselves. He is now midair in that leap and working without a net. "All the world is witnessing your great movement of conscience," Bush said at the National Defense University. "The American people are on your side. The momentum of freedom is on your side, and freedom will prevail in Lebanon...
...family has been here between 70 and 50 years,” Hill says. “I’m fighting power and money. Why should they prevail...