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...this new awareness is in evidence it would be impossibly difficult for me and others to fall in line, in spite of growing pressure to stop all honest enquiry and to back unconditionally anything the U.S. may do. I have expressed these views this week and have faced a torrent of abuse from the right-wing British newspapers and some fanatical U.S. loyalists. "True" Muslims also hate me for saying I would support action against the Taliban and Saddam Hussein and for being too damned Westernized...
...heartened by the hundreds of thoughtful people - both Muslims and non-Muslims - who agree that this new understanding is essential. I fear, though, that these conversations are already being drowned out by events, the movement of weapons and the torrent of rash words (such as "crusade" and "dead-or-alive") spoken by leaders who should know better...
...bottom, but our stores, which the porters launched after us, smashed into the rocks below with a crunch that could only mean we had had our last egg breakfast. On another occasion, we were hauled on ropes from boulder to boulder across a wild, bridgeless mountain torrent. And once we found ourselves walking a stone path suspended on tree trunks jutting out over a cliff's edge as, above us, the mist closed in on our night's campsite. Keen walkers on the right side of 60, it was harder than we had expected. But we made it. And what...
Websites like the Worst of the Worst, Bad Music Central and the Suckiest Songs on MP3.com sift through the torrent of free music pouring onto the Internet and post the most utterly unlistenable tracks. Worst of the Worst founder Robert Burke says he gets as many as 100,000 page views a month. He thinks of it as the flip side of the digital-music revolution. "The site says what a lot of people are afraid to say: 'You suck!'" Yes, Burke has received death threats...
...events across England and Wales in June 2002. He is redesigning the UGL's website www.grand-lodge.org and will launch a quarterly magazine devoted to Freemasonry. But he knows it will take more than a few P.R. gimmicks to transform the image of Britain's Freemasons, who have faced a torrent of negative publicity in recent years...