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...would hardly sit well at a newspaper in, say, the U.S., where reporters are expected to see both sides. Here reporters are expected not so much to unearth news as to find information that corroborates what everyone in the newsroom already believes: the Kremlin is bad; the security apparatus is bad; the intelligentsia is good; the Westernizers and liberals are right...
Four years had passed in Jerusalem without a major terrorist attack, and its citizens had permitted themselves the luxury of thinking they were safe. Jerusalemites believed they were protected by the security wall, which separates them from the Palestinians, and by an intelligence apparatus that had cracked apart dozens of terrorist cells in the West Bank. But that illusion was demolished when a Palestinian youth, identified by police as Ala al-Din Abu Dhaim, fired more than 500 bullets at the young students gathered for a celebratory feast...
...asked, therefore, about Hammonds’ ability to bridge the chasm of communication and understanding that has separated undergraduates from University Hall for so long, just as there are legitimate questions to be asked about Hammonds’ readiness to assume control of the College’s sprawling apparatus in fewer than three months. These questions are not born of any lack of faith in Hammonds’s strengths as an administrator or an educator per se, clearly. Her accomplishments in both pursuits are extraordinary. Rather, we raise these questions because of her lack of evident experience...
...Texas Republican Party, fear that if moderate Republicans leave the party to support Barack Obama - and there is some local polling in major urban areas to suggest that may happen - it will reinforce the hold the social conservatives and the religious right has on the state party's apparatus...
Even the section devoted entirely to citizen and visa services, the consulate, is little more than the paper-generating hub of this apparatus. They operate mostly like unusually officious post offices with Kalashnikov-armed guards outside. Consulates close unexpectedly on both native and foreign holidays, take long lunch breaks and confiscate your cell phone at the door. And then they turn you away because you’re one dirham short of the ?70 passport renewal fee. Some of the officials who work there, behind the dreary glass screens, are, no doubt, delightful people. But there’s little...