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...Bank. Before he goes on a mission, he calls her cell phone. "I love you very much, Mom," he says, then hangs up. Tzameret, a trained masseuse who practices the Japanese natural healing art of reiki, lights a candle next to Idan's photo and sends out energy to protect him. She draws Sanskrit symbols in the air and puts out telepathic lines to her son. Then she knows he's all right. But the reiki alone doesn't work for her. On her hip, she carries a small .22-cal. Beretta pistol in a black holster. There...
...from both ends at once, Foer moving forward in time through Trachimbrod's history and Perchov searching backward for traces of it. They also share themes: the maddening bonds of family, the power of memory and the importance of lies and jokes. "I present not-truths in order to protect you," Perchov tells his charge. "That is also why I try so inflexibly to be a funny person." The two stories collide when the searchers stumble on Trachimbrod's last surviving inhabitant, who tells the horrifying secret of how the dreamy little village met its end in the nightmare...
...David J. Gorin ’03 (“Why Protect Arafat?” April 16) makes the ignorant and insulting claim that the Prophet Mohammad made a treaty against a strong tribe and then “[in] the story, Mohammad abrogated the treaty.” Muslims must take issue with Gorin’s accusation that the Prophet unilaterally abrogated the treaty in question. Gorin refers to the Treaty of Hudaybiyah between the Muslims of Medina and the Quraysh of Mecca. Yasser Arafat compared the Oslo Peace Accords to this treaty in a statement...
...mandatory requirement for high school graduation. Cambridge is now the second Massachusetts town to challenge the statewide MCAS graduation requirement, a requirement imposed by the Massachusetts Department of Education in accordance with the 1993 Education Reform Act. With this bold decision, Cambridge has taken an audacious step to protect its students from an unfair, punitive graduation requirement...
...Second Amendment right to carry and bear arms. But the only consumers whom this tax will really affect economically will be those who are buying bullets in the thousands (and they will only have to pay $50 dollars extra on every 1,000 bullets purchased). Although the constitution does protect the right of an individual to bear arms—and therefore to buy ammunition in limited quantities—there are no constitutional barriers to putting a tax on ammunition purchases...