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...make such a confession in William James Hall—one of Harvard’s many literal Ivory Towers—was a brazen act. I was not inclined to be quite as honest. And as an awkward silence filled the room, I offered a textbook answer to the TF’s question...
...brazen even for the weak-willed Palestinian Authority. Last week, the Authority declared it would prevent armed groups from carrying weapons and, over the weekend, some of its policemen even tried to disarm a carload of Hamas men. A gunfight broke out that spread until it killed three people. Hamas leaders threaten civil war unless the Palestinian Authority backs off. Civil war is unlikely, as is the prospect of Hamas disarming before January elections, as the U.S. urges and Israel insists. The new model for Hamas is the Lebanese group Hizballah, which maintains a large militia while also sitting...
...this time a crucial consolation was missing. After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault. But Katrina was in the cards, forewarned, foreseen and yet still dismissed until it was too late. That so many officials were caught so unprepared was a failure less of imagination than will, a realization all the more frightening in light of what lies ahead. For if we couldn't help our citizens in an hour of desperate need, how well will we do in six months or a year...
...Schr?der simply putting a brave?and brazen?face on a lost cause, or does he know something voters...
...holds cards that make remarks like Robertson's all the more incendiary on the Latin American street, where language like "U.S. imperialism" suddenly has currency again. One is the past: Latin Americans have too many vivid and bitter memories of U.S. intervention in their countries-operations that sometimes included brazen assassinations -which is why the Bush Administration got burned by accusations it backed a failed coup against Chavez in 2002 (the White House denies the charge). Another is democratic legitimacy: Chavez, for all his authoritarian tendencies, is a democratically elected head of state who last year won a national recall...