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...everything in the world around her, and happy because she understands just a little bit more (her favorite animal is, she exclaims matter-of-factly, the lemur). And when a long-foreshadowed tragedy strikes, she gives a 10-hanky breakdown as spiritual questioning comes crashing into her carefully structured worldview. Runners-up: hormones gone wild in the “Half-Blood Prince,” Jeremy Piven’s scenery devouring on “Entourage,” and Sara Ramirez pushing her diaphragm a lot in “Spamalot...
...arrogance and actions in the Middle East. And all nations feel more vulnerable since the U.S. used the big stick, rather than the economic carrot, to beat Iraq into submission. If Krauthammer took the time to talk to people outside fortress America, he would find a very different worldview. Then he might devise more balanced and constructive arguments to make allies in the Islamic world. Until the U.S. genuinely seeks to win Muslim hearts and minds, there can be no end to terrorism. Paul Penfold Hong Kong
...Gogh's mother, Anneke, who had expressed her anger and contempt for the defendant a day earlier. Calmly, remorselessly, he insisted on the righteousness of his act, repeatedly stating he would do the very same thing again if he got the chance. Bouyeri said that in his worldview, there is a "law that instructs me to chop off the head of anyone who insults Allah and the Prophet." He stressed he did not hate Van Gogh, who he described as a man driven by conviction, though the filmmaker infuriated many Muslims with his controversial film Submission which linked the abuse...
...closer to his heart than his family or former friends. "The jihadis are more religious people," he says. "You ask them anything--anything--and they can instantly quote a relevant section from the Koran." Like them, Marwan works Koranic allusions into his speech. He has also embraced the jihadist worldview of one global Islamic state where there is, in Marwan's words, "no alcohol, no music and no Western influences." He concedes that he has not thought deeply about what life might be like in such a state; after all, he doesn't expect to live long enough to experience...
...What I think this survey shows is that the worldview of college students is at dramatic odds with Washington and the current administration when it comes to foreign policy. They are less supportive of the war in Iraq than they have ever been,” said Perez...