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...want the Sunnis to end their insurgency, they'll have to seriously distance themselves from the mullahs next door. If they don't, the Baghdad government will lack influence over large chunks of the country, since even with Iran's help, Iraq's Shi'ite militias won't easily defeat a Sunni insurgency stocked with Saddam's former officers and bankrolled by oil money from the gulf...
LIEUT. GENERAL DAN HALUTZ, Israel's military commander, in a resignation letter announced Jan. 17, explaining why he stepped down after the army's failure to defeat Hizballah in Lebanon last summer...
...calculating. And even if her husband puts his charisma in storage for the campaign, Clinton will be running against a politician, in Barack Obama, who has a public ease and eloquence unmatched by any candidate since ... well, Bill Clinton. To win the future, Hillary Clinton will have to defeat her own past. Because, just like the Clinton who won in 1992, Obama will represent a new generation of leadership, a freshness that Senator Clinton will not be able to claim. She will have to hope that experience trumps charisma, which isn't often a winning hand in American politics...
...pursue their different and colliding destinies. In maturity, the warlord (played with a bull-headed majesty by Jiang Wen, China's leading movie actor) hears than Jianli (Ge You, a stalwart of several Zhang Yimou films) is enslaved by a rival clan; he sends one of his lieutenants to defeat the clan and return with Jianli. He needs a theme song, and desperately wants the musician to compose an anthem for him. But Jianli is a stubborn sort, not easily bossed by his childhood friend; and he complicates things by having a liaison with the warlord's strong-willed, crippled...
...What's implicit in that, however, is a sense of defeat, an admission that for the denizens of Azeroth, our normal lives just aren't good enough. This is why most adults who play WoW are ashamed, and, on a scale of morals, rate their hobby only slightly above porn. We ourselves razz those who are ultra-accomplished in WoW, asserting that they are either kids with no responsibilities, or more likely, dudes who can't get laid. This unspoken envy only conceals a potentially darker truth-that we've all come to accept that WoW is fundamentally better than...