Word: rosing
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...just before the birth of Jesus and yet - at least according to one Israeli scholar - it announces the raising of a messiah after three days in the grave. If true, this could mean that Jesus' followers had access to a well-established paradigm when they decreed that Christ himself rose on the third day - and it might even hint that they they could have applied it in their grief after their master was crucified. However, such a contentious reading of the 87-line tablet depends on creative interpretation of a smudged passage, making it the latest entry in the woulda/coulda/shoulda...
...commemoration ceremony, followed by a seminar and a protest rally, started calmly, but as the crowd grew, tensions rose. Former students, both male and female, demanded the release of Ghazi's brother and Mosque head Maulana Abdul Aziz, who has been detained by government forces since his capture a year ago on July 4. Aziz had been caught trying to escape the madrassa complex dressed as a woman, wearing the all-encompassing black hijab. His wife, headmistress of the woman's madrassa, was released...
...good governance: men and women such as Rwanda's Paul Kagame, Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Tanzania's Jakaya Kikwete and Botswana's Ian Khama. In that sense, the Zimbabwe crisis does indeed present a "moment of truth" for Africa's leaders, as Tanzanian U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro told delegates at an African Union (A.U.) heads of state summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on June 30. Africa must either continue with Robert Mugabe and his ilk, or finally say goodbye to the Big Men. How it decides will help determine whether the continent's future remains...
...encourage his colleagues to write narrow decisions that Justices on both sides can accept. "The chief may say, 'Why don't you come along with a very narrow opinion? We can get seven votes for that, and it will look a lot better,'" Scalia recently said on The Charlie Rose Show. "You want to go along with the Chief Justice because ... you want to make the institution work...
...been used for war against the guerrillas," Comandante Alberto notes. Plan Colombia, which has afforded Colombia's military U.S. hardware like Black Hawk and Huey helicopters, making it difficult for the rebels to concentrate in large units, has been successful in hobbling the FARC. But coca cultivation in Colombia rose in 2007, according to a new U.N. report. A widespread fear is that the remaining members of the FARC will become full-fledged drug lords...