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...this different standard for books? In part, I think, it's because books have no Letters to the Editor and no other easy way for readers to dissent or call bluffs. Every book has small mistakes that go uncorrected, and these encourage bigger mistakes and outright fabrications. I was sure when the Internet came along that a site would arise and be acknowledged as the semiofficial Letters to the Editor column for books. But so far, it hasn't happened...
...affair, but Monday night's nationally televised electoral debate between Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Popular Party (PP) candidate Mariano Rajoy was often downright nasty. For long stretches, it sank into a cacophony of insults, interruptions, and petty squabbling over who was the bigger liar. Yet in the end, Zapatero offered more concrete prescriptions for the next legislature, and that, it seems, persuaded the Spanish public to deem him the victor of this second debate, just as it had after the first, held a week earlier. Whether the governing Socialists can translate that momentum...
...Last weekend's ground assault into Gaza, which involved over 1,000 troops and 100 armored vehicles, backed by helicopter gunships, jet-fighters and drones, has encouraged some military planners to think that an even bigger offensive into the enclave of 1.5 million Palestinians could be mounted without causing unacceptable casualty levels. One senior officer told TIME that "Operation Warm Winter" succeeded in cordoning off more than 40,000 people inside Gaza's Jabaliya refugee camp, without encountering heavy resistance from Hamas and other militant groups. The Israelis say they arrested more than 30 militants in Jabaliya, and found large...
...primary, NAFTA became an even bigger lightning rod, as the Clinton campaign seized on media reports that Obama's senior economic adviser had privately told Canadian consular officials not to take the candidate's anti-NAFTA rhetoric all that seriously. At a news conference Monday morning, Clinton said "I don't think people should come to Ohio and tell the people of Ohio one thing and then have your campaign tell a foreign government something else behind closed doors." After its adviser claimed his conversation had been misconstrued by Canadian officials, the Obama campaign fired back against Clinton, saying that...
There could be bigger battles to come. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert waved off calls of restraint from United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon who equally condemned both Israel for "excessive and disproportionate" use of force in Gaza and the militants for their unending barrage of rockets into southern Israel. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said, "We are not happy about civilians being hurt in Gaza. Hamas and those who fire rockets at Israel are responsible and they will pay the price." If anything, the Israeli assault has steeled Gazans' support for Hamas. As one housewife in Jabalya watched...