Wednesday, March 24, 2004

CLOSE CALL

A minister from my hometown and alma mater.
"The discussion we had was like why do some make it and some don't," he said. "Why did we make it and they didn't?"

There's no question, though, that staying alive is risky business these days for relief workers in Iraq.

"Any type of Western foreigner seems to be right now in a precarious situation," said Alfons Teipen, who teaches the history of Muslim-Christian relations at Furman University.

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