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...standing in a farmer's field, smoke rising from a huge fire started by a Russian incendiary bomb that had drilled into the ground 15 minutes earlier, when the first report came that Russian President Dmitri Medvedev had announced a pullback of Russian forces and an end to the bombing. It was news to the villagers, who had just watched their wheat crop engulfed in flames a few minutes earlier and who had spent the night before sheltering in the forest from Russian attacks. But a visitor from a nearby town insisted it was true...
...countryside, the feelings are less nationalistic. Even before Medvedev's declaration, villagers told me that they think Saakashvili should go. "Russia wants him out so if they see he is gone, they will stop bombing our villagers," says the farmer Beriashvili. Smoke from a bomb billowed from his harvest nearby. Asked whether this would not simply give Russia what it wanted, he replied, "What would you have us do? How can we live like this? We are afraid. We will stay in the forests until this war is over." If it is over, then at least they may be able...
...most urgent business was in Beijing, where Bush met with Hu Jintao, his Chinese counterpart, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin - both veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council. With world capitals swirling with rumors that Israel might bomb Iran to prevent it from getting a nuclear weapon, Bush intended to press China and Russia for stiffer economic sanctions against Tehran, which has consistently refused to suspend its uranium-enrichment program. To Bush, time is critical; not only is his term running out, but the world's ability to keep Iran from nukes through diplomacy is also fading...
...Hollywood's Ticking Time Bomb I agree with James Poniewozik's assessment that Hollywood has yet to demonize China in the same way the news media have [Aug. 11]. However, one need only look at the parallels between negative news coverage and negative pop-culture depictions of Arabs and the Middle East during the past decade, or the Japanese during World War II, to see how closely one influences the other. The current political climate suggests China is next. It may be only a matter of time before the "delightful pandas" take on a more ominous form. Leila Cruz, Wheaton...
...well-informed Syrian source told TIME that Suleiman's death could be connected to the fallout surrounding the assassination in Damascus last February of Hizballah's top military commander, Imad Mughniyah, who was killed by a car bomb. Regime insiders indicate that the Mughniyah killing, which caused the Syrian leader serious embarrassment with his Iranian and Hizballah allies, touched off a purge in the senior ranks of Syria's intelligence services. Some speculate that these purges may have created a revenge motive for Suleiman's killing...