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...Senator MITCH McCONNELL, on the consensus that decades of multibillion-dollar price supports for American tobacco farmers are about...
...spectator by the resumption of hostilities - a terror attack on a bus in Jerusalem that killed 20 Israelis, followed by the assassination of a senior Hamas leader, with both sides vowing more. No longer content to indulge Abbas's efforts to deal with the militant groups by negotiation and consensus, Israel has resumed direct military activity in Palestinian cities designed to eliminate their operatives. The Israelis underscored their contempt for Abbas's path of negotiating with Hamas by their choice of target - Ismail Abu-Shanab, killed by a rocket attack on his car in Gaza, was the very Hamas leader...
...crisis lengthens the odds on Abbas's government surviving into the Fall. His entire political platform was premised on his ability to secure a Palestinian national consensus behind the cease-fire. Now that bombs and missiles are exploding all over again, his relevance will be called into question. The Palestinian prime minister's position may quickly become untenable if the Palestinian street blames Israel for the escalation. A senior Hamas official on Thursday called on Abbas to resign and leave the Palestinian territories, signaling the movement's readiness to confront any crackdown on the streets of Gaza...
...said, but his priority was taking the fight to an enemy far away. A shell-shocked America rallied behind its President, putting to rest all questions over the nature and extent of his electoral mandate, the cut-and-thrust of partisan politics giving way to a broad Beltway consensus that the President rode all the way into Baghdad. To those charged with ensuring a second term for President Bush, the war on terrorism may once have looked like a dream ticket...
...clearly divided into those who created propaganda for the totalitarian state and those who remained independent and were repressed. But curators Roland M?rz and Eugen Blume demonstrate that many easy assumptions about art in East Germany do not hold up to closer scrutiny. Rather than reinforce the consensus view that this art can only be seen in its social and political context, they let the art speak for itself. "We consciously refer to art in East Germany and not East German art," says M?rz, as he slices a Wiener schnitzel in the museum restaurant. "Every painting, every object that...