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If there is not much promise of a lasting peace, the Mydanses have no doubt about man's durability—even in defeat. They cite the answer Israel's Moshe Dayan gave to a questioner who asked why he did not dispose of his enemies once and for all. "I don't think that in war there is any such thing as 'once and for all.' " Small comfort—but perhaps the best there is in an untidy world.

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FARHAD AFSHAR, head of the Coordination of Islamic Organizations in Switzerland, after Swiss voters passed a referendum imposing a national ban on the construction of minarets, the prayer towers of mosques
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