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...Moses says as much about our dreams and fears as it does about Scripture. Eugene Rivers, a Pentecostal minister in Boston's poor Dorchester neighborhood, has depicted Moses as an African revolutionary to teach gang members about throwing off the yoke of slavery to drugs ... Moses is a universal symbol of liberation, law and leadership, eulogized by Elie Wiesel as "the most powerful hero in biblical history ... After him, nothing else was the same again." --TIME...
...mountain-chalet-style store with wooden beams lining the ceiling and natural-grain wooden tables on the floor. France is one of the few bright spots in McDonald's flagging European business, and maybe that's a sign of hope. If a burger chain demonized by activists as the symbol of American imperialism and poor taste can win over the French, maybe it can rebuild its business at home...
...Villagers in Bena will tell you they are Christians, but their faith seems a thin veneer over more ancient rites and beliefs. The steep-pitched thatched roofs of their teakwood huts are topped with the bhaga and ngadhu, totems symbolizing female and male. The former looks like a miniature of the distinctive huts' roofline, the latter a kind of umbrella. "The bhaga is a symbol of a room that holds everything a family owns. It means fertility and hope for an abundant harvest," says Dara. "The ngadhu symbolizes man, who protects the family." A concatenation of jagged megaliths, some more...
Although the attackers hit our financial and military capitals in order to condemn U.S. foreign policy, the attack lost its meaning in execution. For on Sept. 11, each individual symbolized an undifferentiated “America,” each a symbol of the American government. The victims’ particular lives were renounced. Further, the attackers exploited the value we give to the individual. They knew that a few localized attacks—on individuals—would bring our whole country, united, to its knees...
Many said that the two beams—meant to represent the two towers of the Trade Center—served as a physical symbol of the devastation in New York...