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...what they should believe." Nonetheless, Taylor's experience reflects the school's roots as the first Bible college on the West Coast, founded in 1899 as a training school for Christian workers. When Lambert arrived in 1986, the campus still felt more like a revival tent than an institution of higher learning. "We used to call it Camp Azusa," Lambert says. "There was lots of singing. We were not in a scholarly mode...
...Kafie wrote in the e-mail. “NEVER will we get disgusting, cold food at the dining hall, NEVER will we have to walk through ‘McDonalds’ to get to our room, NEVER will [we] have alcohol-less formals under a tent, and the list NEVER ends...
...meantime, some families have moved into surrounding slums. Hundreds of others are jammed into tents just meters from the scene of the blaze. Flora Naig and her five-month-old daughter are living with 40 relatives and former neighbors in a five-meter?by?five-meter tent, and she hopes to sell some old clothes to buy milk for her infant. Naig has survived two previous fires in the past two years, both of which destroyed her residence. "We keep on being tossed around," she says, "from one corner to another...
...forces employ more aggressive tactics to take on the resistance, these grievances are only getting worse, setting back the effort to win over local hearts and minds. "Before the Americans came, we heard a lot about their respect for human rights," says Khalid Mustafa Akbar, at a mourning tent for his three brothers who were shot dead while driving their pickup by a U.S. patrol outside Tikrit last week. "But then we found it is only talk...
...another. Sitting in the family living room in al-Amiriya, Omar and Mohammed al-Douri show visitors photographs of their late father, recalling how, after retiring from the mukhabarat, he painted the rooms of the house and always ensured that the refrigerator was fully stocked. "He was the tent for our family," says Omar. Asked whether they hope to find his killers, the sons nod purposefully. "The blood of our father is on our necks," says Mohammed, 19. "We will avenge him with our own hands." The hard truth is that in Iraq today, almost nothing can stop them from...