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Religion isn't mean and threatening.
Ron Ben-Ishai, Yediot Aharanot 's military analyst, said three factors are threatening stability in the Middle East: the trauma in the Jordanian regime, the war of attrition the United States is waging against Saddam Hussein, and the lack of political stability in Israel.
And the Dept. of Agriculture doesn't have the legal power to close a suspect food plant or unilaterally recall its product, but gets its way on these matters by threatening to pull out its inspectors.
A Jordanian official was quoted in the pan-Arab Al Hayat as saying, "Jordan does not sense any danger threatening its security or stability from Syria or any other Arab party."
The son of fashionable Parisian modistes , dealers in hats and accessories, Corot lived comfortably on a trust fund until he himself became the fashion, both among wealthy industrialists (who treasured his visions of the very rural serenity they were threatening) and among the rising young stars of the impressionist generation--Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro--who revered "Papa Corot," even as he disdained their "blinding use of color."