Word: warriors
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...fundamentalist, success has deep religious significance. The logic of the holy warrior is this...
...steals. Campolieta needs 773 points to move into first place on his school’s all-time list. But to do that he would need to average over 30 points per game the rest of the year. Campolieta does have a chance, however, of overtaking current Golden State Warrior Adonal Foyle who sits in second place, just 475 points away...
...gave women the right to own and inherit property. Muhammad even decreed that sexual satisfaction was a woman's entitlement. He was a liberal at home as well as in the pulpit. The Prophet darned his own garments and among his wives and concubines had a trader, a warrior, a leatherworker and an imam...
...warring mujahedin factions with a nearly psychotic demand for uniformity. "The mujahedin say they are together now, but in reality no alliance ever lasts for long," says a Dostum aide. Moreover, a whole generation of Afghans has grown up knowing nothing but conflict. With so much blood spilled, this warrior nation has something of a taste for it. Local English teacher Najib Kuraishi, 20, relates how crowds would gather at public executions held by the Taliban. "Well, it was quite something to see, a line of 10 people being hanged," he says. Asked if he will ever give...
...various features artists have given the Buddha over thousands of years help to reflect the endless political and cultural changes in Afghanistan. A 2nd century marble head representing Siddhartha Gautama, the Nepalese prince who after years of futile asceticism sat down and found enlightenment, looks like a Mongol warrior, with moustache and wild curly hair. In most other sculptures in the exhibition the Buddha has fine, often-feminine looks...