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...whatever can be said about the president’s style, the natural contrast between Summers and his predecessor, the soft-spoken Neil L. Rudenstine, set up inevitable oppositions...
...Christmas season was not made any brighter by the release of a survey from the U.S. Conference of Mayors showing that the demand for homeless shelter has spiked 13% since last December. The report confirms a subtle change in the complexion of the homeless population. In contrast to the usual conception of the homeless as hardcore unemployed, 1 in 5 residents of shelters now holds a full- or part-time job. These people--waiters, security guards, laborers and other low-paid workers--once earned enough to pay their rent but are now squeezed between high housing costs and stagnant wages...
...contrast, the Tehran Times appears curiously unfazed by the idea, listing the reasons why the U.S. may be tempted to launch an attack right now, including the favorable climate of American public opinion, the winding down of the Afghan campaign and the fact that winter doesn't preclude such a campaign. The Iranian paper simply notes that if such an attack is under consideration, "it will be necessary for the regional countries to coordinate their policies with the White House and make the required arrangements in this regard." (Then again, they fought an eight-year war against Saddam, didn...
...support of al-Qaeda. For most viewers in the Western world, some of its themes were perplexing- the importance attached to dreams, the thanks and praise to Allah, whose name was repeated about as often as a teenager says "cool" in a typical conversation. In the Islamic world, by contrast, the central mystery of the tape had little to do with its content and more with the process by which it had been made public. Why had the Americans produced it now? And so the tape became the perfect example of a wider truth: technologies like television may have shrunk...
...contrast to the large political and welfare arms of Hamas, its smaller rival Islamic Jihad consists entirely of clandestine cells. The organization shares Hamas's opposition to the peace process and its preference for suicide bombings as a tactic, but its entirely underground operation leaves it shaded by the larger Hamas...