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...Number of candidates in the Democratic Republic of Congo's elections on July 30, the country's first in 40 years $450 million Amount the U.N. has spent on expenses, including ballots for Congo's 50,000 voting bureaus, making it the costliest U.N.-assisted election in history...
...listen more fully to the stories I wanted to tell. It also allowed me to take risks that I wouldn't have probably been so likely to take if I felt more immediately a part of a literary community. I just was able to have a tremendous amount of freedom to write as I wished to write...
What is surprising however, is the amount of the city's seculars (69% by one count) who also oppose the parade, though less out of revulsion and more to avoid trouble. Here’s the rub however: the parade is not actually passing through the Old City or the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods. It does not even come close to any holy site. It will be happening in the “free”, universal, non-ghetto part of the city, the part that the ultra-Orthodox and Arab residents keep away from anyway...
...current U.S. position is based on the assumption that Israel's military campaign will, if not destroy Hizballah's military capability, badly bloody the organization and force it to accept what it might deem as a surrender. The "cease-fire" that would eventually be agreed would then amount a mopping up operation. But it's growing increasingly unlikely that those battlefield objectives can be realized, and if not, any cease-fire would probably not be on the terms the Administration is seeking. More often than not, diplomacy results in second-best solutions. And if Hizballah survives the Israeli offensive...
...Rock, Colorado, U.S. Germany's True Face Bill Saporito's essay on the World Cup, "A month of smiles and sourpusses" [July 10], left me outraged, especially his ironic reference to Germany as "the taciturn, inflexible, humorless country with the inedible cuisine." That remark didn't show a large amount of cultural or journalistic savvy. Unfortunately I can't show much compassion for his endurance of "smiles locked in place." Having lived in the U.S. for a year as an exchange student, I don't think fake smiles and forced politeness should be foreign to an American. My country made...