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Quote of the Day (Feb 29 2004 08:18 GMT) - "Handle so, daß du die Menschheit sowohl in deiner Person, als in der Person eines jeden andern jederzeit zugleich als Zweck, niemals bloß als Mittel brauchest." --Immanuel Kant ("Der praktische... |
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February 29 (Feb 29 2004 08:18 GMT) - The day I finally proposed my loveIt was already February 29You agreed to stead with me For I had been your crushA year later we realizedOur anniversary had not fallAlthough we’ve spent 365 days togetherWe must still wait quite longThree years past with a blink of our eyesYou lay in bed so pale and fragileYour head was balding but strongly you said,“My love for you will always stay.”It was three years laterGoing on to fourBut our first anniversaryStill had not fallFinally it was four years laterOur first anniversary year finally cameWith a bouquet of flower and a ring in handI came to your bed in the morning hazeYour bed was emptyThe sheets were neatThe nurse said you had lostSadly to the cancer warShe passed me a letterFrom you to meYou had tried your very bestBut still you could not liveNow I place this bouquet on your graveA ring entwined into the veinsOur first anniversary had finally fallIt is now February 29 |
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When in Iraq, Do as the Grand Ayatollah Does (Feb 29 2004 08:17 GMT) - BETHLEHEM, Pa. — The United States is enmeshed in a friendly yet urgent debate with a Shiite cleric over the future of Iraq, and last week the Bush administration scored an important point. But if a stable Iraq is our goal, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani had better win the argument. He insists on direct elections, as opposed to Washington's caucuses, to determine the next Iraqi government. |
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For Gibson, Devil Is in the Details (Feb 29 2004 08:17 GMT) - WASHINGTON — Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" may well be the best movie about Jesus Christ ever made. Yet, though he claimed to be striving for historical fidelity — to the point of re-creating ancient Jerusalem in the southern Italian town of Matera and insisting that all dialogue be in Aramaic or Latin — the film contains so many minor but distressing historical and linguistic inaccuracies that the overall effect is one of cognitive dissonance for anyone who has deeply studied the Roman and Near Eastern world of the 1st century. |
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