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In the fall of 2013, in the midst of the controversy about former PMO chief of staff Nigel Wright's secret payment of $90,000 to cover what the RCMP considers to be Senator Duffy's fraudulent expenses, Prime Minister Stephen Harper - as he has proven so adept at doing - sidestepped a reporter's question about this issue with the following reply:
After leading Liberal leader Jean Chretien in the polls prior to the October 25, 1993 election, the Progressive Conservatives and newly elected leader Kim Campbell were swept from power in a Liberal landslide.
Elections are such infuriating spectacles that sometimes one doesn't know which obscenity to utter first. But I've decided to aim my initial outburst at the Harper Tories.
Believed to be the last directly revealed divine testament, the Holy Qur'an uses stories and biographies to make specific teaching points, to illustrate important facts of life, and to impart foundational lessons in spiritual discernment.
An important point driven home by the Qur'an is that you don't have to be personally or directly appointed by the Almighty to be a messenger or prophet; just strive to be good and do good work.
Except for that of Jesus, the Qur'an doesn't mention the death of any other individual.
(Toronto) Egypt is at a cross-road in history, both politically and religiously, according to Father Henri Boulad, a Catholic priest who served as the director of the Jesuit Cultural Center in Alexandria and lives in Cairo.
The truth about stone throwing as a form of resistance is that it is not an equal encounter between the thrower and the thrower's quarry. Do not however minimize the power of stone throwing as stones can gravely injure or kill their intended targets. With that said in all of the almost thirty years that stone throwing has been officially utilized by Palestinians as an active form of resistance, fortunately to date very few Israelis have died from being hit with a stone (11 killed). It is estimated that each year there are 3,500 to 4,500 stone throwing incidents in the occupied territories.
We are not alone-or are we? Is there life elsewhere in the universe? We have found water on Mars, indicating the possibility that there may be or may have been some kind of life on that planet. But now NASA has come up with one better, a planet with the burdensome name of Kepler 452b. We'll call it Kepler for short.
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Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of several books focussing on the Middle East including 'The Hundred Years' War On Palestine'. He explains some of the basic facts of the struggle for Palestinian independence and the creation of the Zionist project of Israel.