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Lent began last week, and like clockwork, China's communist government ramped up its persecution of the country's
Catholics. Every holy season, Beijing and local cadres bulldoze churches and round up believers to remind Christians that there are severe consequences to faith in the officially atheist People's Republic. Christmas, for example, is a particularly popular time to arrest priests. For millions of suffering Chinese trying to worship freely, martyrdom at the hands of the state isn't a relic of past ages; it's a fact of everyday life.
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I. INTRODUCTION
The tort system is causing havoc, we are told. Skyrocketing malpractice premiums are driving physicians from practice. (1) Litigatio...
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Bergen County's Korean-American community this week greeted news of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's death with a mixture of relief and apprehension.
Several Korean-Americans interviewed on Tuesday said they were relieved to hear that the dictator who had oppressed his nation for 17 years finally was gone.
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First of all it will question the difficulty of Abraham's decision by suggesting that the free decision is foreclosed by the theistic world of the Genesis story. [...] the ethics of Abraham's decision will be put into question.
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By J.M. Hirsch
The Associated Press
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NEW YORK - After a year of tough negotiations, Germany has agreed to pay pensions to about 16,000 additional Holocaust victims worldwide - mostly survivors who were once starving children in Nazi ghettos, or were forced to live in hiding for fear of death.
The agreement announced Monday between the New York-based Claims Conference and the German government is "not about money - it's about Germany's acknowledgment of these people's suffering," said Greg Schneider, the conference's executive vice president.
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* "Aging in Place in America" Study Commissioned by Clarity([R]) and The EAR Foundation Examines Seniors' and Boomers' Attitudes on Aging and Independ...
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It is a commonly held belief that mankind's worst fear is the fear of death. Inevitable though it may be, the ultimate reality is difficult for many to accept. Carried to the extreme, this fear can cause all sorts of crippling problems, even to the point of neurosis.
Those in the arena of politics are likely aware of this intense fear and use it like a shaping tool. This might explain why so many today seem more than willing to accept the current policy of pre- emption.
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As he was racing down the steps of the World Trade Center's north tower on Sept. 11, 2001, Sujo John noticed everyone around him had a similar expression.
The fear of death was written on every face, and no one knew what was going on in those buildings," he said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq A U.S. Army private on Tuesday described the ever- present fear of death gripping his unit, whose members stand accused of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl and killing her family in Iraq's infamous "Triangle of Death.
You're just walking a death walk," Pfc. Justin Cross told a hearing to determine whether five fellow soldiers must stand trial in the March 12 attack near Mahmoudiya.