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...Western Arab regimes, who have, uncharacteristically, largely avoided criticizing the Israeli offensive - because they see the Hizballah provocation as an Iranian power play in their backyard - but whose citizenry hail HIzballah as a champion of the battered Palestinians. Nowhere will the street-level passions stoked by Israel's campaign be more fierce than in Iraq, where Shi'ite followers of Muqtada al-Sadr are already rallying in support of Hizballah...
...injured leg and putting too much weight on the healthy ones, can be so painful that Barbaro's doctors considered whether to put the horse down rather than let him suffer. His surgeon Dean Richardson at one point listed his prognosis as poor. But Barbaro fought back like a champion. At week's end, his appetite and spirits, if not yet his body, seemed healthy. "As long as the horse is not suffering, we're going to continue to try," Richardson told reporters. "It's worth the effort...
...cabinet formed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Olmert is clearly the man on the spot in the current outbreak of hostilities with Hizballah and the ongoing operations in Gaza. But perhaps the most surprising aspect of the current crisis is that a one-time member of Peace Now, a champion of social welfare issues and a negotiated two-state solution, is the man sending fighter jets over Beirut. Defense Minister Amir Peretz, once known mainly for championing issues like raising Isreel's minimum wage, is now, on two fronts, waging...
...operational dumping by ships, according to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council, which monitors ocean oil spills. Industrial waste, too, pollutes the waters. Egyptians have long called their port city, Alexandria, the jewel of the Mediterranean, but it has lately earned another reputation as "the outstanding champion of pollution," according to Mifsud. Factories dump waste water into the port's bays and into Lake Maryut, 1 km from the sea. Egypt's government blames the cargo traffic from the Suez Canal and oil tankers from the Persian Gulf. "We not only have to manage Egypt...
Through the sleepy stupor of a Sunday morning came the elevating lull of National Public Radio. Nat Hentoff, free-speech champion, was paying tribute to Ralph Ginzburg, who had died July 6 at the age of 76. That snapped me awake. Ginzburg had been declared a pornographer, had lost a Supreme Court obscenity decision and gone to jail - all for publishing a magazine I'd subscribed to when...