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...Rain began to fall on the 10,000 or so Parisians gathered in front of their city hall just moments before International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, in far-off Singapore, announced the winner of the fierce competition to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. Assembled beneath a giant neon sign proclaiming "Paris 2012" on the neo-Renaissance building to celebrate what they had been led to believe would be a certain victory, the crowd held its breath as Rogge appeared on two giant television screens, opened the envelope, and then uttered the word Parisians least wanted to hear: London...
...shaking of late. In mid-June a sizable quake off its north coast triggered a tsunami warning, a false alarm, fortunately, while far to the south, earthquakes of lesser power knocked stuff off shelves and seriously rattled the composure of those who felt the ground sway beneath them. That's because the earthquakes that concern Californians most are those that haven't happened--at least, not yet--along the state's fault-fractured western edge...
...Syrian control. But the killing of another prominent anti-Syrian figure has overshadowed the opposition's success in securing a majority in the new parliament. George Hawi, a former secretary-general of the Communist Party and a critic of Syria's domination of Lebanon, died when a bomb exploded beneath his Mercedes in a busy Beirut street. Hawi was the second anti-Syrian activist to die in June, and many in Lebanon blame the murders on Syria and its allies in the Lebanese intelligence services, though Syria denies involvement. Rising tensions seem unlikely to abate unless Emile Lahoud...
...split of a nation and a war over its future), bold ideas (union and liberty) and a violent death. One reason is that while people felt strongly the symbolic loss of a President through the nation's first assassination, few knew what to make of Lincoln as a man. Beneath the spectacular symbols of mourning--houses draped in black, endless ceremonies as his body was taken by train from Washington to his home of Springfield--was an intense ambiguity: stories circulated regularly about him as a religious doubter, a teller of vulgar stories, an uncouth and awkward man, a usurper...
...Abat wants to junk the constitution and set up an oversight council. Beneath that would be a governing council, which would draft a new constitution and run the government. Elections would be out for "a year or two." He would head the whole shebang. (Last week the government finally filed a sedition charge against Abat for saying at a recent press conference: "Gloria has to go down now, the government has to go down...