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...oppose Syria head on. When he was summoned to Damascus last summer to endorse changes in his country's constitution that would allow Lebanon's Syria-controlled puppet President to remain in power, he bowed to the demand despite his strong opposition. When he returned to Beirut with his arm in a white sling, wags joked that he had undergone a painful arm twisting. But some close to Hariri had another explanation: the sling was his theatrical way of signaling his disagreement with Syrian policies. Instead it may have signed his death warrant...
...choice not yet been made? Kim Il Sung gave his son the nod by naming him to the Politburo at the age of 32 and then cranked up the regime's propaganda arm to sing his praises. Kim Jong Il's eldest son, Kim Jong Nam, is 33 but the official media isn't yet hyperventilating about him. Meanwhile, Kim's other sons Jong Chol, 23, and Jong Woon, 21, also remain invisible...
...unkempt University of Colorado professor who, in a published essay, referred to victims of the September 11 attacks as “little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers.” It is tellingly hypocritical that some of these same academics now seek to strong-arm Harvard’s president for raising a plausible and empirically testable hypothesis at an academic conference...
...It’s good luck,” Tom says. “Honestly, I think I’ve been lucky. Aside from when I broke my arm when I was about 14, I’ve never had a real, serious injury...
This time around, however, the team will have to do without sophomore forward Liza Solley, tied for fourth on the team with seven goals. A valuable sniper on the second line, the most stable unit on the team so far this season, Solley went down with an arm injury in Tuesday night’s Beanpot final. Stone predicted Solley would not be suited up for the Northern swing...