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...characters for "sounds good" and "why fact-check"? In answer to a question about the conflict in the Middle East, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tells NBC audiences that the Chinese character for "crisis" contains the characters for both "danger" and "opportunity." Sinologists dispute that often repeated claim, as do many in the Middle East...
...eight he has admitted to stealing until after Smiley is sentenced in mid-September.The Aug. 7 meeting was intended to give libraries the chance to determine which library each stolen map was taken from. The New York Public Library, Yale University, the Boston Public Library, and the British Library all claim to be missing maps that Harvard says it is missing.Smiley’s plea agreement lists what maps he stole and from which institutions. But questions of ownership arose after multiple libraries discovered that they had the same maps missing.“Some of the institutions will come...
...Once the cease-fire starts, both sides will surely claim victory. Nasrallah will declare himself a new champion of the Arab world for having survived the Israeli onslaught and terrorized 1.5 million Israelis with his blindly flung rockets. (In Palestine's West Bank, recordings of his speeches and ballads of Hizballah warriors are hot sellers.) The Israelis can argue they pushed back Hizballah from the border, killed hundreds of their fighters and replaced enemy militiamen along the border with regular Lebanese army troops and tough international forces. Israel may even be able to exchange its own Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners...
...came from this property, the police won't confirm, although local politicians are calling the raids a blow to the close-knit multi-ethnic community. While neighbors say the house's occupants seemed nice enough, they don't know much about them: some say three brothers live there; others claim it's a married couple. The only reasonable reaction to the possibility that terrorists could be living next door is surprise...
...Even if the invasion of Iraq "proved" Bin Laden's claim of an innate U.S. hostility to the Muslim world, his remedy - a global jihad against the "far enemy" led by himself - appears to have diminished appeal. That may be in part because the alternatives are more compelling: The "far" enemy has drawn very near in Iraq, and those pulled to jihad can actually engage its soldiers in battles that necessarily leave Bin Laden and Zawahiri far away from the action...