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...stated aim of the Israeli campaign at its outset was to free Cpl. Gilad Shalit, a soldier captured by militants during a raid on an army outpost on the Israeli side of the border. Israel has conducted air strikes throughout the Gaza Strip, but the initial focus of the ground effort was on the south, where it is believed Shalit is being held. Further incursions soon followed in northern Gaza, provoking intense fighting in the neighborhoods of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun, just inside the border with Israel. Israeli officials say their purpose in the north is to prevent militants...
...violence against Israeli soldiers and citizens. A senior Israeli security official says some members of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government believe the crisis is an opportunity to smash the authority of Hamas, the militant organization that won control of the Palestinian Authority in elections earlier this year. That aim became evident when Israeli forces arrested eight Palestinian Cabinet ministers and 40 Hamas parliamentarians in the West Bank, who may be charged with membership in terrorist organizations, affiliation with terrorist leadership and other violations. Israeli Interior Minister Ronnie Bar-On tells TIME that the arrests had been planned for weeks...
...football song “Up the Street” triumphantly declares, “And Harvard’s glory shall be our aim!” The most effective way to make Harvard evolve is to create a student body so enamored of Harvard that “Harvard’s glory [is their] aim”—and the most effective way to create such a passion for this university is through spirit...
...Unlike its predecessors, this Sidekick lets you sign onto AIM and Yahoo and MSN messenger simultaneously, and hop back and forth from message to message. For e-mail, Yahoo, Gmail and others can be loaded into the Sidekick's e-mail program, although Hotmail can only be retrieved through the device's web browser. The browser, incidentally, left me unimpressed - especially with the chaotic way it rendered such important sites as MySpace, IMDB and Time.com. But when you combine three IM accounts and multiple e-mail streams, topped off with unlimited text messaging, you won't have time to surf...
...projections and "ghosts," its mirrors and terraces, it turns out to be a very open place. That would be part of Nouvel's love of paradox. If the Guthrie gains him the prestige in the U.S. he deserves, here's another paradox you can count on. His buildings may aim to dematerialize, but you'll be seeing a lot more of them...