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...wills between Washington and Damascus has created dilemmas for Hizballah. The group fears that the anti-Syrian protests may accelerate demands that Hizballah disband its military wing, in accord with U.N. Resolution 1559. A Syrian pullout would deprive Hizballah of a powerful ally on the ground and could choke off the Syrian channel for military supplies from Iran, Hizballah's main sponsor. Nasrallah is concerned that Lebanon will move into the U.S. orbit and face pressure to sign a peace treaty with Israel. While Nasrallah lauded Syria, he was careful to hold the demonstration under the colors of Lebanon...
Next, I will channel the brilliance of Portman by putting on my best twelve-year-old voice and calling Weinstein my “daddy.” After thanking my now-deceased cat Trixie for her contribution to my artistic life, I will choke up while trying to say how proud my Grandma is of me. Unable to finish due to the beautiful combination of wistfulness and optimism that my victory embodies, I leave stage while behind me Ms. Kidman, overwhelmed with emotion, falls through a crack in the floor. After this routine—the Oscar...
Where was the costly turnover? The choke at the stripe? The big Princeton shot...
...have this straight. It's O.K. to lie about the reasons for invading another country but not O.K. for two men or two women to marry. It's O.K. to hand our children a budget deficit that will choke them but not O.K. to use stem cells to fight disease. It's O.K. to duck the real war on terrorism, jeopardize Social Security and take a pass on fixing the health-care system but not O.K. to believe in the separation of church and state. Would those be the famous "moral values"? Thanks, but no. You keep yours...
...whites, and African Americans a whopping 43% higher. Epidemiologists have advanced any number of explanations for the hypertension problem in the black population. One of the most intriguing--if least provable--has been that the brutal conditions aboard slave ships crossing the Atlantic served as a sort of adaptive choke point, selecting for people with a tendency to retain salt and water. This allowed them to survive the murderous journey without succumbing to thirst but predisposed their descendants to hypertension. Dr. Lawrence Appel of the Johns Hopkins University School of Med-icine believes that modern-day African Americans do process...