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...weeks ago, Iranians held their breath when a mortar blast killed one person and injured five others near the President's office. The attack turned out to be the work of an exiled leftist group rather than religious thugs who have frequently unleashed violence on the President's supporters. A prominent ayatullah provided a moment of comic relief by making the farfetched claim that an ex-CIA director had arrived in Tehran with suitcases full of cash for reformers. The laughter was short-lived: hard-liners jailed a cartoonist for lampooning the conspiracy-minded ayatullah...
...some reviewers have praised Scarry's book as a successful defense of beauty. In a New York Review of Books article, philosopher Stuart Hampshire (who gets a mention in her book) praised On Beauty in highest possible terms, calling it an "utterly original blast for beauty" and a revival of a grand tradition of "the arts of attention, of exaggerated noticing...
...left the impression that maybe this was the hardest thing he had ever done--and he still was taking weekends off. Even as McCain bounced along the back roads clearly having a blast, breaking rules, insulting voters and reporters and staff members with glee, Bush was doing half the work with twice the effort. Maybe this wasn't exactly what he signed on for, when all those delegations were flying down to Austin and begging him to be the savior of the party. Now he had to do the begging, explain why someone who brags that he never wanted...
...under assault. Late in January, the tiny, instrument-packed spacecraft was buffeted by an exceptionally powerful burst of particles spewed out by the sun. In the space-environment control room at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) headquarters in Boulder, Colo., alarms sounded. "All of a sudden, a blast wave of solar wind showed up at the ACE spacecraft," says NOAA's Joe Hirman, "as dense as any we've seen, and, bam, 30 minutes later the earth's magnetic field got hit hard...
South Lebanon's explosive political-military cocktail is back on the front burner, with Israel, Syria and the Hezbollah militia all adding their own interests to the mix - and all standing close enough to get burned. Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak came under mounting pressure Monday to either blast Hezbollah or unilaterally withdraw from Lebanon - or both - following a weekend attack by the Iran-backed guerrillas that killed the fifth Israeli soldier in two weeks...