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...Gaddafi, not Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden, was the enemy Washington loved to hate. The U.S. bombed Tripoli 20 years ago last month, in what amounted to an aerial assassination attempt on Gaddafi himself after President Reagan dubbed Gaddafi the "mad dog" of the Middle East. The Tripoli blitz came amid suspected Libyan involvement in a Berlin terrorist attack that killed two American servicemen. Gaddafi's international isolation only grew two years later, after Libya was accused in the Lockerbie disaster. Two decades later, Saddam is gone from power, facing trial and possible execution for oppressing his own people...
...years ago, a new magazine that says “H Bomb” in huge, suburban letters was door-dropped at Harvard. Katharina Cieplak-von Baldegg ’06 co-founded the magazine, which proceded to create a national stir and media blitz...
...looking into possible links between Monday night's mayhem and two other major terrorist attacks on the Sinai Peninsula's Red Sea coast in the past 18 months. Fifteen Egyptians are currently on trial for the October 2004 attack on a hotel in Taba that killed 34 and a blitz last July in Sharm El Sheikh, the Sinai's premier resort, that left at least 64 dead. Egyptian officials believe that the accused operated an Islamic extremist cell in the Sinai, calling itself Tawheed and Jihad and relying on sympathetic local Bedouin for logistical support...
Overall, the death of the October ad blitz should make for a more meaningful campaign. "All of this allows politicians to come to voters in ways that are more germane to their lives," says the NDN's Rosenberg. "They'll need to raise less money to reach them, and they'll pay more attention when they do. It's great for democracy." Even if it's bad for Wheel of Fortune...
...great clearing house of ideas in Australia,' he was right." The essential Howard is a scrapper and proselytizer with a thick skin. In the House of Representatives this year, he and his ministers have been pounded during Question Time, the P.M. mostly impassive before Labor's inquisitorial blitz about the scandal of AWB Ltd. and the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food program. And during those first two sitting weeks, when the P.M. had heard enough, arms and body would spring up - "Mr. Speaker!" - as he spat taunts across the chamber - "Mr. Speaker!" - hand thumping the dispatch box in a climax...