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Nyhan said that economists with ties to politicians need to be more honest with the public regarding their actual views, whether or not they clash with the prominent figures they’re advising...
...directly with Hamas "terrorists," Israel's top hostage negotiator, Ofer Dekel, met recently with jailed Hamas commanders to persuade them to put pressure on their leadership to accept the new offer. Inside prison, Palestinian inmates are separated according to their allegiance to Hamas or Fatah, since otherwise they would clash, a mirror of their rivalry inside the Palestinian territories. Hamas prisoners are better organized and more disciplined than Fatah inmates, according to Anat Berko, a criminologist at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, who frequently speaks with the Palestinian inmates. She says that Hamas' efforts to free...
...Nouri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite partisan. But so far no meaningful cooperation between the two has emerged. And some fear that today's tribal alliances will become tomorrow's Sunni militias, bands of experienced and well-equipped fighters ready to attack Iraq's Shi'ite factions in a clash that could leave the country in open civil...
...Still others say the schism may have resulted from a personality clash. Proenza, who has openly criticized everything from federal funding cuts to a new name proposal for the Weather Service, may have been too severe a departure from the popular and more soft-spoken Mayfield (who is now a weather forecaster for a local Miami television station). Either way, there might not be as much bonhomie during those on-the-hour cable news network interviews with the Hurricane Center staff during storms this year."It's going to be hard for us to work as effectively as we need...
...protest government plans to raze illegal mosques built on state-owned land; set up their own Shari'a court; and have even kidnapped policemen and terrorized neighboring areas with a Taliban-like vigilante campaign against anything they consider un-Islamic. On July 3, that defiance erupted into a bloody clash between security forces and students when the authorities tried to cordon off the madrasah complex as part of a plan to shut it down. The next day, a shoot-on-sight curfew was in force around the area, and tensions remained high. TIME's Aryn Baker was caught...