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...Anne Jennings, 57, a retired teacher from Roanoke, Va. Jenkins' mother owned a set of rare 100-year-old Imari plates, which are hard to find in good condition. For her mother's 70th birthday, Jenkins spent three months in antiques centers like Boston and Charleston, S.C., searching in vain for a matching set. Then in one visit to Magazine Street, Jennings had a "great conquest": she found 12 more plates in good condition for $1,000. "My mother was so thrilled," she says. "Every time I see those plates on display in her home, it reminds me of this...
...Though physically dead, Shams was in fact not gone from his life at all but more present than ever?on an inner, spiritual plane. "Shams" means sun in Arabic, and in the words of Rumi scholar Annemarie Schimmel: "He who had searched for Shams, the 'Sun of Truth,' in vain, discovered that he was united with him in himself...
...flex its own foreign policy muscles, the European Union is reasserting control. The consequences for the region depend in part on how quickly and completely the U.S. decides to leave and how soon Europe can overcome its historical rivalries to speak with one voice. Balkan leaders who waited in vain for Europe to intervene while Bosnia descended into chaos in the early 1990s don't believe the E.U. is ready to go it alone. "The reality is that we need the U.S.," says Bosnia's wartime Prime Minister, Haris Silajdzic, a front-runner for President in next month's general...
...awkward secret lurking behind this day’s solemn pomp, is that the dead of last September died for no reason at all. The search for meaning, what might crassly be called “closure,” is doomed to fail. These dead have died in vain...
...checkpoints. Mohammad says he has just given an intelligence briefing to the Americans. Pointing up to the peaks to the south, he warns, "There are more al-Qaeda here in this area. After Shah-i-Kot, they went to the tops of the mountains." Pacha Khan Zadran is vain, grasping and irksome?but his help may be worth the aggravation...