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...controlled it, and each has constructed around it a separate sacred history. As the myths have collided, the result has been a play of extremes: physical splendor alternating with utter destruction; moments of pious exultation oscillating with the grossest carnage. Or sometimes carnage and exultation at once. "Men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins," wrote an 11th century Crusader fresh from a massacre of Muslims on the Temple Mount. He added, "Indeed, it was a just and splendid judgment...
...rode a horse and shot a gun for the first time...
Once we were under way, zigzagging paths up steep slopes generally demanded the group ride in single file atop sheer shale ridges. Upon breaching a pass, we stopped for lunch, while the support trucks and mobile kitchen took the low road. As we rode, the pure air was scented with wild mint and garlic brushed by the horses' hooves. The grunt of a yak, a marmot whistle or a bird's wing-beat carried undisturbed across the valley...
...tightly pressed against one another, filling buses over capacity. Nor would it be unusual if you hadn't noticed the sign warning passengers of the line, often blocked from view by students who have turned the wide dashboard of a bus into an overflow seating area. Indeed, if you rode a shuttle bus every morning, it wouldn't be unusual if hadn't noticed Harvard taking any concern for student safety...
...Marcos and the other 23 Zapatista leaders, their ski masks firmly in place, rode a flatbed truck onto the jammed, sun-baked plaza, then trooped onto a stage whose backdrop was the massive National Palace, which fills an entire city block. Standing on pedestals that flank its main entrance, young Zapatista sympathizers waved red flags...