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...other faiths. Gyan Ranjan Saha Calcutta Pope Benedict XVI's initiative to kindle a debate between religions is laudable. The world will eagerly follow this exchange of ideas. His predecessor, Pope John Paul II, made a significant contribution in dismantling communism. Likewise, the present Pope's dialogue may well rid the world of religious bigotry. In the ultimate analysis, this process should hopefully lead us to the one aspect the communists got right: atheism. C.P. Belliappa Coorg, India Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish citizen, made an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981. Two-and-a-half years...
...long memory. So the idea that he would want an infuriating gadfly like Litvinenko to disappear is not beyond reason. But the President's defenders scoff at the idea that he might have been involved in Litvinenko's death. Putin, they say, had no need to get rid of Litvinenko; the exile was an irrelevant crank. Milton Bearden, a former CIA spy in Moscow, as well as other experienced intelligence hands, agrees it would be nuts for Putin--who has had good relations with British Prime Minister Tony Blair--to order an assassination on British soil of a British citizen...
Perhaps we can never get rid of the lying in Christmas cards. After all, it’s hard enough to get rid of Christmas cards already. As Jerry Seinfeld once observed, there is no clear time limit on how long you need to keep them, so people oftentimes will store them indefinitely, or at least for several months, on a mantle or refrigerator...
...idea they have to improve their school is too far-fetched. Example: A guy campaigning for head of the technology committee one year ran on the platform that he wanted to get rid of as much technology as possible, according to Tsang...
...Still, the notion of a "Shi'ite crescent" emerging in the Middle East may be based more on Sunni fears than Shi'ite ambitions. The anti-Western alliance, which includes Sunni Palestinians, is more political than religious in nature, motivated by antipathy toward Israel and a determination to rid the region of U.S. influence. Hizballah calculates that by toppling the Western-backed government in Beirut, U.S. influence in Lebanon and the wider region will be curbed. The conflict playing out in Lebanon, then, may not simply be based on the country's age-old sectarian tensions, but in a regional...