Holding a Moral Center as Civilization Fell
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This wrenching political thriller lends a human face to an upheaval so savage it seemed beyond the realm of imagination when news of it filtered into the West.
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History today is not so much written by the victors as by the vanquished.
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For a growing number of churches, the boundary between sacred space and marketplace is coming down.
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SEOUL -- In his final days, the Venerable Bogwang, a fisherman-turned-Buddhist monk, wrestled with a dilemma. The scriptures he revered exhorted him to leave behind the entanglements of the material world.
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Townspeople had a hard time squaring an unsavory past with their wholesome self-image.
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JERUSALEM : Political leaders in Israel and the West Bank steeled themselves for the end of the Yasser Arafat era as the vanguard of the Palestinian nationalist struggle for the past four decades lay brain dead in a Paris hospital.
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By Deborah S. Morris, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 8--In the end, the community came together to preserve its past with an eye toward the future.
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It's not easy being at the top when your empire is crumbling.
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Every so often, nature reminds humans why we once feared it. And once in a while, we remember in turn what makes us human. In the terrible wake of the tsunamis in Southeast Asia--so vast their counterparts
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For Westerners living in the Afghan capital, the attack on a prized social sanctuary may mark the end of their access to streets and the people they're here to help
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The world into which Jesus was born and raised has shaped morals for two millennia. How Jewish mores became Christianity's customs.
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societies went to work picking up bits of flesh and bone for burial under Jewish law. &quot;In many cases we prevent heavy disasters.
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A controversy over too much skin points to the chasm dividing puritan official morality from the lives of real Chinese.
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BAD AROLSEN, Germany- World War II is near its end. The Nazi empire is crumbling from its edges inward as Soviet and Allied forces advance.Comment
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Â· Ruling means pioneer may have to close centreÂ· Move follows years of dispute with authority
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An ancient version of global warming may have been to blame for the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history.
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By Mike Joseph, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Dec. 11--BENNER TOWNSHIP -- The size and makeup of the crowd jammed into Benner Township's remote municipal building last Thursday reflected the new importance that's fallen to the land here.