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...olive and orange trees, eucalyptus and pine. Year round it draws historians, who come to research the ancient games, as well as young athletes who come for a sports camp. Wander the woods and you're just as likely to find a four-court basketball area as to stumble upon a ruin...
...insufficient and late. Kerry then added the charge that the President's policies are "actually encouraging the recruitment of terrorists," which prompted Bush's stern reply that Kerry suffered from "a fundamental and dangerous misunderstanding of the enemy we face." Kerry even faulted Bush's reaction in 2001 upon learning of the 9/11 attacks--the scene that everyone who has seen Fahrenheit 9/11 will remember as seven excruciating minutes of reading The Pet Goat with a classroom of Florida schoolchildren. At that point the Bush campaign hauled out that icon of 9/11, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani...
...main nontheological message of radical individualism (or, as Berkeley sociologist Robert Bellah skeptically lampoons it, "You can be anything you want to be ... and if you don't make it, you have no one to blame but yourself") is deeply encoded in our national self-understanding--and even upon other religions, once they have spent a few generations here. "Catholics for choice?" Snorts John Fonte, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. "That's Protestantism." Not quite, but it is proof that whatever its institutional trend, Protestantism's influence will live on. --With reporting by Broward Liston/Orlando
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...Allawi appears to have recognized Sadr's influence, because he has strenuously attempted to woo the cleric to join the political process under the interim government. He reiterated his offer on Thursday. "This government calls upon all the armed groups to drop their weapons and rejoin society," Allawi said in a statement. "The political process is open to all, and everyone is invited to take part in it." But Sadr has rejected the terms, refusing to be recognized simply as one among hundreds of leaders, many of whom have no proven constituency. And his refusal to withdraw his forces from...