Word: sunsets
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...sadly pessimistic. The character of the prophet speaks from Gibran’s experience of being multicultural and never quite fitting in anywhere. “We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us,” Almustafa says. Gibran had allegedly toyed with the idea of writing a sequel to “The Prophet” in which Almustafa is rejected by his disciples upon his return and then stoned to death by his own people. A bleak end?...
...Mohammad, 45, was ready to quit, even though his family desperately needed his $100 monthly salary. "I am so fed up," he said. "[Taliban leader] Mullah Omar says if you transport goods for the Americans, I will kill you. But the government security agencies take off their uniforms at sunset and rob me. There is no salvation...
...week he appealed to Taliban leader Mullah Omar for peace and offered to talk. And in September, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, representatives of Karzai's government sat with former Taliban leaders and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in Mecca to discuss Afghanistan's problems over a sunset feast of more than 100 dishes. Both Karzai's government and Afghanistan's current Taliban leadership deny that any negotiations took place. But one of the attendees, Abdul Salam Zaeef, the former representative of the Taliban's Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in Pakistan before its overthrow in 2001, characterized...
...same stone-faced duo had shown up about an hour before sunset on each of the six days that Liu had been working on his unlikely rendering of Naples' notorious garbage. They said nothing and showed no interest in talking with the artist or any of his eight assistants, but stayed long enough to look everything and everyone over - and to be sure they were noticed. They were performing a ritual familiar in the troubled neighborhoods of southern Italy, scouting for local mob bosses and asserting control over the "territorio...
...Nagin instituted a dusk-to-dawn curfew to take effect at sunset and continue until the storm has passed. The curfew, which will be enforced with the help of almost 2,000 National Guard troops being deployed to the city, allows officials to arrest residents if they are not on their own property. "Looting will not be tolerated," Nagin said. "Looters will go directly to jail. You will not get a pass this time...