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...notion of congenial population density. After living long and hard in 13 small towns in Vermont, with regular excursions to a house she still keeps in Newfoundland--a place for people who think Maine is overcrowded--she has put down for some years in Centennial, Wyo., a microscopic settlement west of Laramie at the foot of the Medicine Bow Mountains. Just outside town there's a sign that claims the place has pop. 100. That estimate might be a little steep...
...matter is settled, it has come to an end. The case is over and there are no more allegations of wrongdoing,” Peres said. He would not disclose the details of the settlement...
...pragmatism in some cases, including entangling himself in financial matters—the most secular of all things. In the past week, he has given the archdiocese permission to proceed with Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings. In Rome, he is currently discussing this prospect. Yet, the total damages from the settlements in the abuse scandal equate to 10 percent of the Boston Archdioceses’ assets. Though much of these assets are tied into property, which may be difficult to liquidate, there is quite simply no reason why Law should have given permission to back out of settlement deals when...
...please Mukhlas. So, according to I Made Mangku Pastika, the general leading the Bali investigation, Amrozi prayed five times each day and read the Koran each night. When he felt he was ready to seek his brother's blessing, he was brought into an Islamic school near the tiny settlement of Sungei Tiram. The school was Militant U. Among those who gathered there, according to regional intelligence officials, were Abubakar, Sungkar (who died of natural causes in 1999), Hambali and Mukhlas. The four men used the madrasah as a base for recruiting their earliest disciples. One of the first...
...Tensions between the longtime allies were obvious even before 9/11, as the Saudis sought desperately to persuade the Bush Administration to more actively pursue a settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But when 15 Saudis were among the 19 hijackers on September 11, American public discussion of the kingdom began to change. Skeptics in Congress and the media began drawing uncomfortable attention to the Saudis' role not only in backing Afghanistan's Taliban regime, but in propagating a similarly stark worldview among the world's Muslims. Saudi opposition to a U.S. invasion of Iraq - for fear of consequences more dangerous...