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...gray Alfa Romeo. It was the first assassination in Lebanon since the murder of former Premier Rafiq Hariri in February, which sparked huge anti-Syrian demonstrations and finally compelled Damascus to disengage from its neighbor at the end of April. Why was Kassir targeted? He was the most outspoken critic of Syria's stranglehold over Lebanon. "It's a message to say that despite the international pressure, these people are still here and have a violent agenda," says Ziad Majed, deputy president of the opposition Democratic Left. Damascus denied involvement in Kassir's death, but public pressure is mounting...
ASSASSINATED. SAMIR KASSIR, 45, outspoken Lebanese journalist and critic of Syrian control in Lebanon; in a car bombing in Beirut. The first attack on a prominent Lebanese opposition figure since the killing of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in February, it came less than a week after the anti-Syrian opposition won a clear victory in the first round of Lebanon's parliamentary elections. Syria, still influential despite its withdrawal of troops under international pressure, denied involvement in the murder, which reignited national outrage and prompted calls for the resignation of Lebanese President Emile Lahoud...
...GSAS dean, Skocpol, a long-time critic of various administrators, will become an administrator herself...
Skocpol said that though she has been a critic of Summers, she has a good personal relationship with...
...short and often develop late in the week, "there are one or two layers of editing and review that are not there," compared with articles elsewhere in the magazine. That's no excuse, says Daniel Okrent, who just ended an 18-month stint as "public editor"--basically, the internal critic--of the New York Times. "It doesn't say at the top of that page 'Stuff that we didn't check as much...