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...addition, inaccurate information about disabled access standards can leave even well-meaning business owners, who have had their premises inspected, vulnerable. Building inspectors and architects are sometimes misinformed about state compliance standards. In some cases, state and federal regulations are in direct conflict. For instance, California state regulations require a curb ramp to have a beveled lip, while federal regulations say the transition from ramps to walks, gutters or streets should be flush and free of abrupt changes. A new state law, S.B. 1608, approved by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and which goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2009, may only...
Israel's current offensive underscores the strategic quandary it faces in Gaza. By striking Gaza now, Israel has pushed the conflict with the Palestinians back to the top of the priorities facing the Obama Administration. Israel's offensive in Gaza will provoke an upsurge in hostility on the streets toward the U.S. and Israel from Lebanon to Pakistan, making life difficult for those inclined to cooperate with Washington (foremost among them, the Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas) while offering an opportunity to U.S. foes to improve their own standing in Arab and Muslim public opinion. President Obama will take...
...ambitions. The 2006 war helped ruin the political career of Ehud Olmert, the outgoing Israeli Prime Minister. But with less than two months before leaving office, Olmert and his cabinet appear to have absorbed some of the lessons of the bungled attempt to destroy Hizballah in 2006. In that conflict two and a half years ago, Hizballah defied Israel's aerial onslaught to maintain relentless barrages of rockets into northern Israel. Olmert found himself bogged down in an unwinnable conflict...
...Gaza was not how Israel was supposed to appear on the strategic agenda of Barack Obama when he takes office in January. Its leaders had hoped to keep the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the back burner of the new Administration, which Israel hopes will make Iran's nuclear program its overriding priority in the Middle East. Instead, the weekend bloodbath in Gaza - the deadliest since Israel occupied the territory in 1967 - casts the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an urgent crisis demanding a response from Washington. It also highlights the failure of the Bush Administration's and Israel's policies...
Professor Samuel P. Huntington, a renowned political scientist who gained fame for his controversial theory of international conflict, died Wednesday, according to a University press release...