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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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10.5.06

Change:

Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, has nominated the Unionist hardliner Ian Paisley as the head of the Northern Ireland Executive
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U.K. Attorney General Peter Goldsmith called on the U.S. to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp for terror suspects, saying it is "unacceptable."
"There are certain principles on which there can be no compromise," Goldsmith said during a speech in London today.
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At the same time...Ahmadinejad taps into what Samuel Huntington has termed "elements of commonality" between civilizations by pointing out Bush's similar eschatological values: "I have been told that Your Excellency follows the teachings of Jesus, and believes in the divine promise of the rule of the righteous on Earth."
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After his long review of world events, Ahmadinejad concludes that "liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity" and "have failed."
Instead, he says, the world's peoples are turning to the teachings of religion.

"My question for you is: Do you not want to join them?" he concludes.

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