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...formally expired in January, and that month's Israeli offensive in Gaza reduced his popularity to an all-time low. Were a new Palestinian election to be held today, it's doubtful that Abbas would even win the nomination of his own Fatah party, much less be able to beat a Hamas candidate at the polls. Hamas remains the majority party in the Palestinian legislature; it controls all of Gaza following a violent showdown in 2007 that saw Abbas' supporters ejected from power. Hamas may also be even more popular than Fatah in the Abbas-controlled West Bank, where free...
...listserv. The three struck a moderate tone. "It's time for us to listen, first, to learn a little bit, to upgrade our message a little bit, to not be nostalgic about the past because you know things do ebb and flow," Bush told the crowd. "You can't beat something with nothing. The other side has something. I don't like it, but they have it." (See "Obama's 100 Days: Behind-the-Scenes Photos...
FlyBy admits this entire analysis was far too technical and sportsy and unless you love this stuff, you're probably bored. There aren't too many non-sports reasons to watch the fight...unless you just really enjoy seeing people beat the crap out of each other. FlyBy would mention its some pretty cut men at work, but neither Pacquiao or Hatton are very attractive. Sorry...
...outcome officials won't know for sure until all the deposits are tallied over the coming weeks. But in a tiny corner of Kentucky, one little college is doing just fine. Berea College is on track to yield 78% of the students it accepted this year - and thereby beat Harvard's 2008 haul. The school's secret? Free tuition. (See TIME's photos inside a public boarding school...
Israel's new government is a headache the Obama Administration doesn't need. Compared with Tzipi Livni, the woman he narrowly beat out, and even Ehud Olmert, the man he succeeds, incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuis cool toward a Palestinian state. And although it includes the moderate Labor Party, Netanyahu's ruling coalition teems with right-wing figures like Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, whose call for a loyalty oath directed at Israel's Arab citizens dismays even Israel's staunchest friends...