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...battle of wills in Baalbek is about more than a question of shorts and hand holding. It is about the refusal to relinquish territory. "Baalbek was left to rot by the Lebanese government," says Musawi. "The Maronites are supposed to be the rulers in this country and everyone else their slaves. Hizballah rose up out of Baalbek to fight against Israel. Baalbek is the capital of the Islamic resistance...
...orgy. Now we're experiencing a rebirth of early '60s thinking, a spiritual shift. We must learn how to be nonaggressive in order to survive." Rather than being a nonjudgmental license for self- indulgence, the course, she says, encourages service as a way of prayer. "It teaches us to relinquish a thought system based on fear and accept instead a thought system based on love." And for now, no one can pass that message along quite like...
...bluntly: Do Americans still have faith in the vision of their country as a cradle of individual rights and liberties, or must they relinquish the teaching of some of these freedoms to further the goals of the ethnic and social groups to which they belong? Is America's social contract -- a vision of self-determination that continues to reverberate around the world -- fatally tainted by its origins in Western European thought? What kind of people do Americans now think they are, and what will they tell their children about that...
Anderson, 46, is faced with the immediate task of providing stable leadership, which the department has lacked since late last year when a heart attack forced former Chief Anthony G. Paolillo to relinquish his duties to an interim head. The shuffle of chiefs continued into the winter and spring when the role of temporary top cop changed hands a few times, as the highest ranking officers reached retirement age soon after becoming chief...
Though Lowell countered with one run in the bottom of the first, Nicole Desharnais doubled in Elissa Kao in the fourth to give the Crimson a 3-1 lead it would never relinquish...