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...Bridging the Gulf I was disappointed with your special report on the Middle East, "A Gulf Apart" [May 26]. What grated most was the incapacity of your contributors to conduct a vivisection of what ails the troubled region and suggest solutions that would be restorative and reconciliatory as well as rehabilitative. To have Arabs and Jews in a permanent state of unrest benefits only the war merchants. Saber Ahmed Jazbhay, Durban...
...left Mossad to become a lawyer and continued to avoid politics for 10 years, at a time when the country was being torn apart over the question of exchanging land for peace with the Palestinians. When she finally took the plunge, it was to help shape the terms of the exchange. "Tzipi said she'd prefer to be the negotiator than let someone else do it and give it all away," says Eran Cohen, her former political adviser...
...taking advantage of Yahoo! Mail--they were using software to automatically create thousands of e-mail accounts very quickly, then using those accounts to send out spam. The Carnegie Mellon team came back with the CAPTCHA. (It stands for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart"; no, the acronym doesn't really fit.) The point of the CAPTCHA is that reading those swirly letters is something that computers aren't very good at. If you can read them, you're probably not a piece of software run by a spammer. Congratulations--you can have...
...then that Mohammed confronted his client. "Do you think you're in the American army now?" Jackson quoted Mohammed as demanding of his client in a loud voice. Hawsawi began "shaking" and appeared "disturbed" during the exchange, which occurred as the two prisoners were seated four rows apart...
...motherly sensitivity and emotion to the presidency,” according to the BBC. As president, Johnson-Sirleaf confronts the difficult task of repairing a country ravaged by war. “She faces what other people would see as insurmountable challenges in restoring a country torn apart by 14 years of the most brutal civil war,” said Hunt, who worked on Johnson-Sirleaf’s campaign and has hosted the president as a guest in her home. She noted that the war in Liberia “makes the U.S. Civil War look like...