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When the probe hits home, Rezai asks Stipp to perform a few tasks. Can he touch his index fingers together? Raise a cup to his lips? Sign his name? Stipp can do none of it. Then Rezai sends a few volts through the wire. Stipp's tremors calm. His index fingers meet. He signs the paper. "It's been a long time since I did that," he says wonderingly...
...Then came the BMWs and Mercedes, the calm of post-nightclubbling Sunday mornings shattered by infant screams, and before I knew it, I was navigating my way past Bugaboo baby carriages to get a seat at one of my favorite haunts near Helmholtzplatz. It's called Wohnzimmer (Living Room), and the new moms, toddlers and baby carriages that now predominate make it looks more like the Nursery...
Support for Olmert's plans to remove settlers has ebbed. So far, his government has failed to find homes and jobs for many of the 8,500 embittered settlers evicted from Gaza in 2005. Nor has the handover of Gaza to Palestinians brought any calm: Palestinian militants continue to shower southern Israel with erratic homemade rockets fired from Gaza. Olmert must first win back popular support for his disengagement plans before he can bring the military on board...
...After the event Alex received even more e-mails thanking her. But what she remembers most from that night is this: "My brother was facing the entire restaurant, he flipped out, he had one of his episodes. My dad had to carry him out and calm him down. It was kind of like what happened the other time, except no one was really looking at him and saying, 'What's wrong with your child? Why is he acting like that?' Instead, people asked, 'Are you okay? Do you need anything...
...this meeting, which became possible because President Sarkozy is vacationing not far from the Bush home," says Elysée spokesman David Martinon. "The idea was for the two men to meet informally, in a friendly manner, and discuss international topics, and manage their disagreements and contradictions in a calm and cordial...