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...their jobs next week. Arafat, in turn, set up a special military court to try suspected anti-Israel militants. He also arrested eight supporters of Islamic Jihad, the group responsible for a Jan. 22 bombing that killed 21 Israelis and prompted the border closing. "By the current low threshold of expectation, it''s progress ? almost a breakthrough," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "The Israelis insist that Arafat at least make an effort (to round up terrorists), and this is his reward...
...When he talks, it is not only to his flock of nearly a billion; he expects the world to listen. And the flock and the world listen, not always liking what they hear. This year he cast the net of his message wider than ever: Crossing the Threshold of Hope, his meditations on topics ranging from the existence of God to the mistreatment of women, became an immediate best seller in 12 countries. It is an unprecedented case of mass proselytizing by a Pontiff -- arcane but personal, expansive but resolute about its moral message...
Cairo perfectly crystallized reciprocal conundrums: the problem of the Pope in the modern world and the problem the Pope has with the modern world. The conflict boils down to different paths of reason and standards of truth. In Crossing the Threshold of Hope, John Paul locates the source of the great schism between faith and logic in the writings of the 17th century French philosopher Rene Descartes, particularly his assertion "Cogito ergo sum" (I think; therefore I am). The Pope points out that Descartes's formulation turned on its head St. Thomas Aquinas' 13th century pronouncement that existence comes before...
There has been, of course, the success of the Pope's Crossing The Threshold Of Hope. (Harper Collins, not to be outdone by Knopi's coup, will be publishing the Dalai Lama's Essential Guide to Human Liberation, which is touted as offering "10 clear steps toward the peace and compassion of true enlightenment...
Women who are right on the threshold, Frisch said, will have their cycle, but they will not ovulate...