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Extremist Islam is on everybody’s mind thanks to the Sept.11 anniversary and the thwarted plane attacks in Britain just over a month ago. And if this were not enough, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can always be trusted to provide enough spice for any recipe. As he calls for revisionist “scholarly” conferences about the Holocaust (with insulting cartoons to go along), he has repeatedly expressed that the only permanent solution for the Middle East is the “elimination of the Zionist regime...
...Hilda Bernstein, 91, white, middle-class illustrator turned antiapartheid activist and founding member of the multiracial Federation of South African Women; in Cape Town, South Africa. Bernstein and her husband Rusty, who was tried for treason alongside friend Nelson Mandela and acquitted, fled police harassment in 1964, settling in Britain. She returned only after Mandela became South Africa's first democratically elected President. "The meaning of life," she said, "is a choice you make about the way you live...
...white, middle-class illustrator turned antiapartheid activist and founding member of the influential, multiracial Federation of South African Women; in Cape Town, South Africa. Bernstein and her husband Rusty, who was tried for treason alongside friend Nelson Mandela and acquitted, fled in 1964 amid harassment by police, settling in Britain. Only after Mandela had served as the first democratically elected President did the widowed activist return to South Africa. "The meaning of life," she said, "is a choice you make about the way you live...
...poorly attended." But other sources said that the 43% turnout was the highest for a primary in the state's history. David Strempel Como, Italy How Much Risk Can We Take? You asked, "What Will It Take To Make Us Feel Safe?" [Aug. 21] I would feel safe if Britain detached itself from U.S. foreign policy; if the West and Israel stopped bombing and humiliating the Arab states; if the Palestinians were given their own state and it was supported by the West to the same degree as the state of Israel is supported; if we stopped demonizing Iran...
There appeared to be a veritable flock of lame ducks gathering in the Middle East last weekend, as Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and then with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Blair just officially inaugurated the twilight of his tenure, announcing that he will quit within the year amid mounting unpopularity, especially over his close ties with the Bush Administration. Olmert has been badly - critically, even - wounded by his inconclusive war in Lebanon, and his election promise of redrawing of Israel's borders by withdrawing from some West Bank settlements...