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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...year past he has grown three inches, to six feetmore unseen materialist forces, working their will upon him. He will not grow any taller, he thinks, in this life or the next. If there is a next, an inner devil murmurs. What evidence beyond the Prophet's blazing and divinely inspired words proves that there is a next? Where would it be hidden? Who would forever stoke Hell's boilers? What infinite source of energy would maintain opulent Eden, feeding its dark-eyed houris, swelling its heavy-hanging fruits, renewing the streams and splashing fountains in which God, as described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Updike's "Terrorist" | 5/27/2006 | See Source »

...Fall" and "Don;t Think Twice, It's All Right" (wow!), and his voice got stronger, more assertive, as if he was ready to fill the larger halls he would soon be playing. By the third album, The Times They Are A-Changin', he was the fully-formed folk prophet, and so assured of his abilities that he could record his fourth LP, the 1964 Another Side of Bob Dylan, in one night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Dylan at 65 | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

...exam; I am writing this exam... 3) [History 10b] This question can be answered by looking at the social, political, and economic factors of the countries I actually did the reading for. 4) [Comparative Study of Religion] I would like to answer this question through a drawing of the Prophet Mohammed. 5) [Women, Gender, and Sexuality] To be honest, I only took this course to pick up girls. I haven’t the slightest idea what systems of oppression even means. 6) [Af-Am] I learned everything I need to know about this subject from watching...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Topic Sentences For Your Final Exams | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

...with him but with Khamenei. Still, Ahmadinejad's nationalist statements have bolstered his popularity with many ordinary Iranians. Ahmadinejad's letter to Bush may have been less an invitation to talk than an attempt to appeal to devout Muslims around the world by mimicking the letters sent by the Prophet Muhammad to leaders during the 7th century, exhorting them to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Not Talk? | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

...souls cleansed, brains washed - took poison and died at his command. Stanley Nelson?s documentary Jonestown: The Life and Death of People?s Temple interviews survivors and kin of the dead, and has a trove of footage to illuminate, if not explain, the seductive, destructive power of the Temple prophet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Feast of Documentaries | 5/5/2006 | See Source »

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