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This war has turned Beirut inside out. The city's usually snarled traffic is almost gone and the blaring noise of car horns is absent. Conversely, parks that are rarely used are now full of people - those who have fled the bombings in the south, east, north, and, well, pretty much everywhere in Lebanon...
World TeamTennis is a unique and upbeat brand of the game. Absent at Sunday’s match was the stodgy linesman shushing the audience between volleys, replaced instead by loudspeakers blaring Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger.” Larry the Lobster, the Boston mascot, clapped his hands at every break point, and the audience, much of it under 14 years old, would respond in kind...
...people as before. Yet 39 American pharmaceutical companies came out in ardent opposition to sharing their secret recipes. They claimed intellectual property was violated. But what about Hassan? Or his brother? And the nameless thousands?Even though the Food and Drug Administration eventually caved, these drugs are still conspicuously absent from the African interior. About 500,000 Africans receive the antiretroviral medications they seek, but 4.7 million still need them. Our current efforts are simply insufficient. It is not enough to share precious intellectual property rights. We need to be willing to aggressively counteract AIDS with all the ammunition...
...dealers in the middle who have suffered the majority of the financial loss in the case,” Carson said. O’Connor said that Smiley was unique because he thoroughly cooperated with the government after his arrest. “I’m not sure absent his cooperation, we’d ever be able to [find all 97 maps],” he said. —Staff writer Brittney L. Moraski can be reached at bmoraski@fas.harvard.edu...
...kidnap drama has simply highlighted a fundamental flaw in the policy of unilateral withdrawal on which Olmert based his election campaign. Absent any agreement with a Palestinian government that is willing and able to enforce order, militants will continue to attack Israel. The idea that Israel can "disengage" from the Palestinians without their cooperation is wishful thinking...