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...interviewing a woman who was a member of Saddleback Church in California. It was dark and we were sitting outside in a circle of light under a lamppost while she talked to me about her faith. The moment itself is hard to describe. It's as if someone stood on the edge of the circle and was breathing on us. A warm, moist air surrounded us. She was mid-sentence and stopped talking. It was a moment like I hadn't felt before - or since. There was the presence of something else that was spiritual around us. It lasted...
...every way possible emulated what her father stood for, which was for the right of the people to govern themselves and to have a free and democratic country. Her stubbornness is her strength." -Josef Silverstein, a Burma expert at Rutgers University (New York Times, June...
...discussing NATO’s efforts to protect Georgia from further Russian aggression (“Exercising Power in Georgia,” Opinion, May 13), Ellen C. Bryson offers readers much information that is incomplete and misleading. Ms. Bryson fails to inform readers that Russia has recently stood alone against the entire Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to block impartial observers from monitoring the disputed border between Russia and Georgia. Thus, it is Russia that leaves NATO with no alternative other than military confrontation. She fails to acknowledge that Russia has played a key and improper role...
...years after the last time I strapped on goalie pads and stood in the net, I'm gonna pull on my mask again and play some honest-to-goodness ball shinny (which sounds sexier than it is). I'm bringing a team (and I use the term loosely), and additionally, I offered to sponsor three more teams - the slots for which filled up instantly. We've got players coming from Canada and the States, sure, but that's nothing compared to one of our team captains who's flying in from New Zealand expressly to play in the tourney...
...narrative is a meeting held at Deng Xiaoping's home on May 17, 1989, less than three weeks before the Tiananmen massacre. Zhao argued that the government should back off from its harsh threats against the protesters and look for ways to ease tensions. Two conservative officials immediately stood up to criticize Zhao, effectively blaming the escalating protests on him. Deng had the last word with his fateful decision to impose martial law and move troops into the capital. In a rare historical instance of a split at the party's highest levels, Zhao wouldn't sign on: "I refused...