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Money forms another basic root of Hamas' power. Having been sweet-talked into helping with finances, Iran now provides some $20 million to $30 million a year, according to a Western diplomat in Tehran. Cash also flows in from Islamic charities and wealthy private backers in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. Officials around the Arab world acknowledge that their citizens contribute to Hamas, but they tend to justify the group's operations as legitimate resistance to the continued Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. Says Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal: "Someone who is fighting for the liberation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radicals On The Rise | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

Walker's childhood neighbors said the things neighbors always say in these situations. "They were an average American family," and John "was a sweet, quiet boy." It happens to be true. John Walker Lindh was a middle child named after John Lennon and Chief Justice John Marshall. He spent his first 10 years in Silver Spring, Md., in the happy, unremarkable manner that most parents wish for their children. "We were loud, normal kids," says Andrew Cleverdon, a boyhood friend of Walker's. "We played football and basketball, rode our bikes." John's father, attorney Frank Lindh, took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taliban Next Door | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...essential act of faith, it seems to me, is wonder--a sort of involuntary fascination in awe. By awe, I do not mean the act of seeking, either--the quest one hears a lot these days in the affectionate recollection of George Harrison's My Sweet Lord. I don't believe in seeking, and I don't believe in finding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God Is Not On My Side. Or Yours | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...adventures of said Bert, who has a wife and easily waked baby, aren't too perilous. In one chapter (a concept the book cleverly introduces to younger readers), he puts on a shirt, falls into a truck and is taken to Scotland. But Bert's doings are witty and sweet and endlessly rereadable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Kids' Books You've Never Heard Of | 12/11/2001 | See Source »

While each win adds points to the team’s final standing, the win was espcially sweet for Fraser...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger and Cathy Tran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: W. Swimming Coasts Past Ivy Foes | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

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