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...goes down at the end of a long day, Ibrahim's family of 12 has made 2,400 bricks. They are paid $1.60 per thousand. The workers kneel down and pray in the field. Tomorrow they will start the same routine over again?mixing clay, molding bricks and drying, stacking and loading them onto packhorses to carry to the kiln. The product of their labor goes mostly to build merchants' houses in Peshawar or Hayatabad. The Shinwari family can only dream of the day when bricks made by their hands can be used to rebuild their own shattered country...
...Sept. 2, 1774, angry colonists surrounded Elmwood and forced Oliver to resign. “My house at Cambridge being surrounded by about four thousand people, in compliance with their demand I sign my name,” he wrote in his letter of resignation. Several days later, Oliver embarked for England, never to return...
...fought tooth-and-nail against Oslo's land-for-peace trade, and believes Israel's survival depends on holding much of the land it currently occupies in the West Bank. And it was to underline his rejection of sharing Jerusalem that he marched up the Temple Mount with a thousand police and troops just over a year ago, setting off protests that Palestinian leaders quickly turned into the current intifada...
...biggest casualty of last month’s attacks was people’s security in their ability to control their own lives and create a world after their ideal. Last month we all watched as church attendance nation-wide tripled and several thousand people showed up at one of the most secular universities in America to pray. As my father said, “There are no atheists in foxholes, and all of America’s a foxhole...
...found himself in Copley Square again, speaking this time before a crowd gathered to oppose any U.S. military response to the terrorism of Sept. 11. And this time, though it was only a few days after George W. Bush first uttered the words "act of war," more than a thousand people had turned out for the protest. "The antiwar movement," says Zinn, "has sprung up more quickly than...