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...climbed the marble stairs, it rang true to anyone who had ever watched him in action. And it would match the history and mystery of the court if it turned out that Roberts ultimately alienates conservatives and not those who fear any Republican appointee. Roberts may agree in spirit with those who see the past 50 years of jurisprudence as too expansive and too intrusive but respect too much the way the law is shaped to ride in and blowtorch it. He may just prove willing to conserve even opinions he faults. If that is so, then it will...
...spirit of self-examination is to really take root among British Muslims, what happens in the arenas of high politics is less important than the everyday chats in mosques and youth clubs. "That atrocity broke our hearts," says Mohammed Kozbar, spokesman for the North London Central Mosque in Finsbury Park. "I've been shocked and surprised by the news that these young people are British Muslims." Until early 2003, the radical Egyptian-born cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was the imam at Finsbury Park, reeling in enthusiastic young followers with his fiery sermons. Now Abu Hamza is awaiting trial...
...description of heaven. In 2004 the executioners of Nick Berg, an American contractor in Iraq, alluded on tape to a different Koranic passage: "Whoever kills a human being, except as punishment for murder or other villainy in the land, shall be regarded as having killed all mankind." The spirit of that verse forbids aggressive warfare, but the clause beginning with except is readily deployed by militant Muslims as a loophole. If you want murder and villainy in the land, they say, look no further than U.S. bootprints in Arab soil...
...these exercises could be done in a suit and tie without looking ridiculous." Certainly, nobody snickers when local architect David Marquardt, 38, drops his briefcase and performs a series of slow, graceful movements. And after finishing the 10th of 16 activities, he declares, "I feel like my body and spirit are in unison...
...there been headway on rampant DVD piracy? There's some progress. The government seems committed--at least in spirit--to doing something about it. Now it's important for the spirit to be put into action. I think it will come. But it's not there...