Word: sakes
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This is the influence of the teaching of the Koran, the most potent and powerful book in Arabia for the past 14 centuries. In the holy book, God promised Muslims who sacrificed themselves for the sake of Islam that they would not die. They would live on in paradise. Muslims, men and women, even secularists, hold to the promise literally. Heaven is then the ultimate reward of the devout who have the courage to take the ultimate test of faith...
...begin, for irony's sake, in January 2001, when thousands of draft notices arrived in the mail at the homes of Israeli army reservists in standard-issue brown envelopes bearing the legend "Chapter 8" - Israel's code for a call-up for war. Those notices were fake, part of a sneaky effort to reduce Sharon's 20-point lead over Ehud Barak two weeks before a crucial election by suggesting that if Sharon were elected, the draft notices would be real. Sharon won, and sure enough, a little over a year later the real draft notices arrived, calling up some...
...head to put out the conflagration. My son gets to say, "Tricked you!" He's happy, I'm happy; we continue driving, until he says the exact same thing one minute later. Before long my reaction grows muted and shortly after that I'm begging him for mercy's sake to stop that nonsense. (Oh and I was joking about driving. We're usually in church...
...struggle over information." They have a list of 88 briefings Administration officials have given lawmakers on the war and homeland security, and tartly note that some were sparsely attended. They point to the 124 meetings Bush has had with members since taking office in January 2001. "For God's sake, if they've got concerns about what we're doing, all they have to do is ask!" says an exasperated Bush adviser. Adds another: "We kiss so much ass every day [on Capitol Hill], we have to ice down our lips at night...
...discrepancy highlights the different political requirements of the leaders on each side. A truce is desirable as an end in itself for Sharon, whose popularity has plummeted because of his inability to restore security. But his Palestinian counterparts see little value in a cease-fire for its own sake; its only value to them is as a stepping stone to negotiating Palestinian statehood and Israeli withdrawal from most of the West Bank and Gaza. Sharon needs to show progress on security; Arafat needs to show progress on ending the occupation...