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...images of the family destroyed by the Gaza beach explosion have darkened the mood on the Palestinian street, where there is a growing appetite for revenge for Hamas to tap into. And as long as the financial stranglehold over the Palestinian territories persists, the prospects for the more pragmatic element winning the day will become even more remote...
...then that we realize we have come in via the exit. We re-enter through the correct door, and at once the layout conforms to the immutable laws of grocery-store geometry. The colorful produce and flowers pull us into a world of plenty. Now Nestle is in her element. An N.Y.U. professor, Nestle (rhymes with wrestle) has just published What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating. To write the 600-page tome, she spent a year examining the world of groceries. "It's not exactly the great Western novel," she concedes...
...made no secret of their animosity toward Zarqawi and the al-Qaeda agenda. The announcement, just a day before Zarqawi's death, that the new Iraqi government would release some 2,500 Sunnis imprisoned for assisting the insurgency suggests that rapprochement between the government and the Sunni nationalist element of the insurgency may be accelerating, which was bad news for Zarqawi...
...Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the memorial to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the National World War II Memorial.“I think throughout Carter’s professional career, doing things in the highest possible taste and quality was a number one element,” says Cunningham, “and that governed everything he did and he wanted the monuments in Washington to reflect high quality of taste.”“Anyone who is willing to be out front and provide leadership wherever should be admired and appreciated...
...suburbs. A ROOM WITH A VIEW Despite the adjustments being made in the Houses, the Overseers’ 1955 report said that the crowding did not seem to bother undergraduates.“We are aware of the official opinion that the Houses are overcrowded and that an important element of ‘gracious living’ has disappeared on that account,” the report stated. “But we must report that on this score the undergraduates appear a good deal less concerned than the faculty.” A biting editorial in The Crimson...