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...Palestinians and Israelis worked hard to make this the best Christmas for Bethlehem in many years. Security precautions were relaxed. Shops and hotels were full of joyous pilgrims. But unscrupulous partisan journalists buried this good news. Waiting for an hour at a Bethlehem security checkpoint is preferable to being blown to bits by bombers. The situation is not the fault of Israel. Ami Isseroff, Rehovot, Israel...
...announcement came Tuesday during Sarkozy's first full-blown solo press conference at the Elysée palace. As part of his plan for rationalizing the state's sprawling audiovisual empire, the President suggested "we consider the total suppression of advertising on public channels", and that income lost from the ad ban be compensated in part by "an infinitesimal sales tax on new communication methods, like internet access and mobile telephony." Freeing state television stations from ratings-sensitive advertising, Sarkozy said, would allow public TV to quit trying to match the popular but mind-numbing game shows and reality television...
...Obama campaign officials retold that story Tuesday when asked if the insurgent candidate would be blown off course now with all the attention - and criticism - that will come as the race enters the next phase. "He showed last fall that he understood what this was all about by staying totally centered, totally grounded and not taking the advice that lots and lots of people were giving him. From Labor Day until Clinton slipped in late October, all of the experienced hands all gave the same advice: 'You gotta' get down, get dirty, get tough.' And he said...
...strewn like drunken, haphazard spider webs from building to building and street to street. I saw the hotel room I lived in for six weeks in 2004. Not because the desk manager let me in - the place is now shuttered and boarded up - but because the windows are blown out. Banks, mosques, and hospitals, in addition to whole neighborhoods and private houses, are barricaded...
...average in 1972 to 2,140 sq. ft. in 2000, while the average number of people living in it has decreased - is, in Duany's view, a consequence of our practice of virtually eliminating the public space outside of major urban areas. "What has blown up the McMansions is the lack of community," says Duany. "We need to externalize those social needs, rather than privatizing them...