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...Daylight Savings Time. At that point, my family held a special emergency Passover seder seven days early, in honor of my being home. Synchronicity manifested itself when the pizza delivery guy arrived (Is pizza unleavened bread?) shortly after the front door was symbolically opened to let in the prophet Elijah. It is now 9:30 p.m., and I am just finishing up composing an e-mail to Maryanthe...
...fact, the Koran contains no injunction to destroy the images of other faiths. It does forbid depicting the Prophet: it is not an iconic religion. But none of the teachings of Islamic faith give sanction to what the Taliban are up to. "The terrible irony," says Philippe de Montebello, director of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "is that Islam is essentially a tolerant faith--much more so than Christianity used to be." If there is practically no medieval art left intact in England, for instance, it is because the godly minions of Oliver Cromwell--ancestors...
TIME.com: Thirty-five people died Monday in a stampede during Islam's annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. Fatal accidents have become commonplace during the pilgrimage over the past decade, as some 2 million Muslims from around the world seek to retrace the footsteps of the Prophet Muhammad. Is the scale of the pilgrimage today simply a product of air travel being more accessible to the faithful than it was, say, 30 years...
COUNSELLOR TO PRESIDENT Karen Hughes High Prophet...
Ever since, Bush has made the nickname his signature gesture of outreach. There is scarcely a legislator left in Texas who hasn't been renamed by Bush. His staff members, from the "High Prophet" (Karen Hughes) to "Big Country" (Joe Allbaugh) to "Boy Genius" (Karl Rove), were all tagged years ago. Members of the press covering Bush now answer like so many fighter pilots to handles as varied as "Stretch," "Pancho," "Grandpa" and "Dulce." And in Washington, Bush has already started spraying nicknames at delegations of visiting lawmakers. George Miller, the hulking Democrat from California, is now known...