Word: cedars
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...fact, a month after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, the Lebanese anti-Syrian opposition is in disarray. It has no clear leader. The Cedar Revolution can rally thousands of better-educated, upper-middle-class Lebanese in Martyrs' Square-it is mockingly called the BMW Revolution, locally-but it couldn't stop the reimposition of the pro-Syrian Prime Minister, Omar Karami, nine days after he was forced to resign. And so the Bush Administration finds its hopes for democracy in Lebanon almost completely dependent on the good faith of Hizballah-a wholly owned subsidiary of Iran, which...
...course, the most romantic flowering of the spirit America went into the region to foster: the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, in which unarmed civilians, Christian and Muslim alike, brought down the puppet government installed by Syria. There is even the beginning of a breeze in Damascus. More than 140 Syrian intellectuals have signed a public statement defying their government by opposing its occupation of Lebanon...
...skeptical. Older voters complain that the proposed tax reprieve smacks of ageism, while many younger residents who would benefit say it would be nice but ineffective. "As a taxpayer, yeah, I'd like to save $1,000 or more," says Adam Cooley, 23, a recent grad working in Cedar Rapids. "But the job opportunities need to be there." Voters in North Dakota agreed in 2002, rejecting 2 to 1 a ballot initiative that would have offered young adults $2,000 a year in tax breaks and help with student loans. That outcome was inevitable, says North Dakota Republican Lieutenant Governor...
...Crawford, Texas, is a place for thinking. There are big windows with long views, a wall of books and on one side a table that is usually freckled with jigsaw pieces. It was a few days after New Year's in 2003. The President had been out clearing cedar, and Laura Bush was lying on a sofa reading, or at least pretending to. That Christmas holiday was a deep breath between the 2002 midterm elections and the walk-up to the war in Iraq. Karl Rove, chief strategist for the Bush re-election campaign, arrived at the house with...
Iowans know Kerry well; he spent much of last winter there resurrecting his campaign. But Bush is betting a Massachusetts Senator can't appeal to Iowa farmers. Kerry needs to win big in the Des Moines area and eastern cities like Davenport and Cedar Rapids. Bush will almost surely win the western third of the state. State officials estimate that 25% of voters will cast early or absentee ballots...