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...President this week--a symbolic political rite that glosses over the fact that he has been running flat-out for a year--the question being asked most is the one a man put to him at a backyard gathering last Thursday night in Derry, N.H.: "How do you distinguish yourself from Governor Dean...
...Israelis. The targeted killing of a political leader--one considered rather moderate at that--outraged Palestinians in all factions and threatened to carry the violence to a terrible new level. A senior Israeli military official retorted that all Hamas leaders are equally at risk: "We don't distinguish between military and political levels in Hamas." Meanwhile, Hamas leaders went underground after calling for "Jewish blood to flood in the streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa." Alas, there is no road map for where that kind of talk can lead. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Jamil Hamad/Amman and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem
...time of its construction, it stood near the Wall. Another irony is that both März and Blume worked as curators in the National Gallery in East Germany. For März, 64, who sports shoulder-length gray hair and a walrus mustache, the exhibit attempts to distinguish art that stands the test of time from socialist kitsch. That meant excluding some well-known work from the period, such as Walter Womacka's idyllic couple in Junges Paar am Strand (Young Couple at the Beach), a Norman Rockwell-like painting that could once be found in many East German...
...mention of the guillotine as a liberal, more humanitarian method of execution prompts a riff on how shrill-voiced arch-Tory Ann Widdecombe would have complained that the Jacobins were soft on crime. You might not laugh your head off, but Vive La Revolution yields enough chuckles to distinguish it from most histories...
Thirty years is a blink in the life of a vineyard. In some aspects, these wineries are still finding their footing, looking for ways to distinguish themselves and earn praise from the finicky wine establishment. But they have preserved the near extinct agricultural heritage of Long Island and given residents and visitors alike something to drink...