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After years of recovery from grief and agony, Lebanon is once again trapped in a cruel prologue to civil war: The country??s reservoir of anti-Syrian politicians and journalists are tumbling like tightly packed rows of collapsing dominoes...
...Lebanese political system suggest that neither the anti-Syrian nor the pro-Syrian factions will be able achieve dominance over the country in our lifetime. Nonetheless, both have the means to inflict considerable and prolonged suffering on the Lebanese people in a futile attempt to transform the country??s mix of competing political creeds into one norm. Based on this understanding, the world should—temporarily—abandon the idea of an international tribunal for the slain Lebanese leader Rafik al-Hariri, because it will most likely lead to more hostility. Instead, the international community should...
...West’s strategy to deal with the crisis has had a debilitating effect on the country??s national dialogue: issuing warnings against Hezbollah, condemning those who associate with them, and abstaining from involving itself in any solution. It does not take a Middle East expert to realize that this policy—the mirror image of how Syria and Iran are pushing Hezbollah to demonize their rivals—is not a strategy of reconciliation...
...According to Coakley, gender is not a consideration during the process, and historically there have been more men elected than women. “It’s not purposefully gender balanced,” Coakley said. The Harvard society, which inducted its first members in 1781, is the country??s oldest continually running chapter, according to its Web site. Phi Beta Kappa elects students three times a year: 24 students in the spring of their junior year, 48 students in the fall of their senior year, and about 90 or 100 students at the end of senior...
...know that we’ve certainly issued permission for travel in a number of other places around the country?? said then-State Department spokesman Richard A. Boucher of the North Korean ambassador and his aides to the United Nations at a daily press briefing in 2004. “They’ve been out to California; they’ve been to other parts of the nation. So it’s not that unusual for us to issue permission for them to travel from time to time...