Word: coma
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Israeli public discourse inclines more towards irreverence than sentimentality, so it should come as no surprise that comedians are making hay out of the one-year anniversary of the stroke that felled former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, leaving him in a coma from which he has shown no sign of recovering...
...ravenous statesman munches a few of his favorite falafels, then asks a hospital orderly what has happened in Israel while he was asleep. After hearing all the grim news, starting with the fact that his underling Ehud Olmert had snatched his job and blown it, he decides that a coma is better than reality, and drifts back to sleep...
...Olmert, whom they perceive as weak and shifty. Nor is America as obedient to Israel's demands as it was when Sharon was giving bear hugs at the White House. Sharon could be forgiven for thinking that without his leadership, the Israeli body politic had also lapsed into a coma...
...Many Israelis miss their strongman, but Sharon, in his coma, has outlived his own legacy. His plan to unilaterally redraw Israel's borders heedless of Palestinian wishes has proven a failure; rockets are still spewing out of Gaza. Because of Sharon, Israel is also less secure on its northern front. Already burned by an 18-year occupation of Lebanon, Sharon would probably have refrained from Olmert's blundering all-out attack last summer. But it was on Sharon's watch that Hizballah built up its defenses and smuggled missiles from Iran and Syria. Sharon might not recognize the country...
...criminal investigation in London. Lugovoy and Kovtun were said to be in the hospital with radiation poisoning, but there was no independent confirmation of that. After his interview with the British detectives, Kovtun was reported by the usually reliable Interfax news agency to have lapsed into a coma, but his lawyer quickly denied it. Hamburg police found alpha radiation in the apartment of Kovtun's ex-wife and in the home of his ex-mother-in-law, but were not able to say whether the source was polonium 210. For their part, British officials were hoping further tests might...