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...concerns to exploit Iran's natural gas reserves. Saeed Laylaz, a reformist analyst in Tehran, says only an end to U.S. sanctions and admission to the World Trade Organization might tempt the regime - something the U.S. is unlikely to support. Without a breakthrough, it's likely the IAEA will refer Iran next month to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. Some diplomats are worried about what they call their nightmare scenario: an air strike by Israel against Iran's nuclear facilities, to which Washington would acquiesce, inflaming anti-U.S. feeling among Muslims. Says a British official: "There...
Songwriter David Gedge’s obsession is something more complex: He is upset because he has heard her refer to their long-term relationship as a dalliance. Does anyone else sense a missing episode from Hornby’s novel...
...literal level, “tawhid” means oneness, or unity. This does not only refer to the oneness of God; many Muslims also understand it as the oneness of humankind, the essential sameness of the souls of human beings, though bodies may differ because of race or gender, or minds may differ because of religious belief. While human beings prefer to divide themselves into religious, ethnic and national groups, a believer in tawhid has a more profound understanding of mankind. He looks past these divisions, recognizing that the soul in each body is of the same basic nature?...
...only do they hate us, but they also want to invade our country and increase their numbers within our borders to more surely overcome our resistance when the time comes for our destruction. Nothing could satisfy them more than an active role in bringing us to ruin. I refer those who don’t believe me to Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.), who reminded us at the Republican National Convention that Paris yearns to make our foreign policy...
...light breeze, the gurgle of flowing water, and that joyful sense of release. Tourists flock to the rock gardens of Ryoanji; I found my Zen behind a great sushi restaurant, against a stunning 12th floor view of southern Kyoto, amidst the hustle and bustle of an underground Starbucks. I refer, of course, to the delights of the sit-down toilet. Only after stumbling every morning to a porcelain bowl in the floor can you understand the genius of Western plumbing. For a month, my brother and I made daily pilgrimages to our favorite sites; they became “ours?...