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DANIEL MEDLEY, manager of British children's museum Wookey Hole Caves, on why a museum guard dog suddenly ripped apart hundreds of teddy bears in a $900,000 exhibit--including a bear reportedly worth $75,000 that once belonged to Elvis Presley and was on loan from a British aristocrat...
...protect their citizens. The experiment was effectively declared a failure two weeks ago when Bush and al-Maliki announced in Washington that more U.S. troops would be sent to protect Baghdad. But will that work? Probably not. When the full might of the U.S. military has been brought to bear in an Iraqi city--think Fallujah, Tall 'Afar, Samarra, al-Qaim--the enemy has simply melted away, taking its terrorist tactics to places that are inadequately defended. And when U.S. forces have eventually stood down, leaving the policing to Iraqis, the enemy has returned to the very places that...
...asked at a Washington forum whether the Bush Administration had plans, in its war on terrorism, for the Lebanese Islamist group Hizballah, factions of which the U.S. believes were responsible for the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. service members. Armitage, a bear of a man, gave a chest-thumping reply. "Their time will come," he vowed. "There is no question about it. They have a blood debt to us, and we're not going to forget...
...From the beginning of the current conflict, however, reoccupying southern Lebanon is exactly what Israeli military and political leaders have wanted to avoid. They know better than anyone that Israeli society is not prepared to bear the cost in terms of ongoing casualties and long-term encroachment on the country's standard of living presented by the frequent call-ups of military reservists that a renewed occupation of Lebanon would require. Instead, the Israeli military is looking to redefine victory as the outsourcing of control of southern Lebanon to an international force...
...Marriage is not about love. It's about a love that can bear children." --TODD AKIN, Republican Congressman from Missouri, calling for the House to pass a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. The measure failed...