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...Still, one thing that does not seem to be at issue in the current episode is that a personality conflict between Bandar and Turki played a big role in his abrupt exit. According to sources close to the family who spoke to TIME, Turki had grown fed up and "angry" that Bandar was still trying to act as Saudi Arabia's point man in dealing directly with President Bush and Vice President Cheney. More general reports of bad blood between the two Saudi princes have also fed rumors that Bandar, also the King's nephew, is positioning himself to replace...
...thousands of Eastern European Jews would choose to move to the impossibly harsh environment of an increasingly violent Palestine in the two years after World War II out of anything but a perception of dire necessity reminds me of another myth - albeit a Zionist one - with which I was fed growing up: that Israel's Jewish majority was ensured when hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs had "miraculously" chosen to up and leave their homes in 1948, answering the call by Arab leaders promising that they would come and drive out the Jews. No, the Palestinians in many parts...
...kamikazes—much like Islamist suicide bombers—were fed a false account of their own cultural heritage. They were told that the samurai code, “bushido,” required self-sacrifice rather than surrender. But the Japanese military’s mantra repeated a fabricated history—according to Thomas, “many ancient Japanese warriors had been prisoners of war.” The scholarly Admiral Kurita penetrated through the “bushido” ruse. Too many of his countrymen...
...policy initiative his dictatorship has been widely hailed for - Latin America's first real effort at free-market capitalism, which the rest of the region adopted in the 1990s - looks tarnished today. One leftist President after another has taken the oath of office this year because Latin voters are fed up with the failure of capitalist reforms to narrow the widest divide between rich and poor of any region in the world. And the reason for that failure isn't due so much to capitalism itself - it's due to the fact that capitalism, or socialism for that matter...
...Harvard was not done, as sophomore guard Andrew Pusar followed suit with another steal. He fed Housman in the open court and, after continuing to run the floor, got the ball back from the point guard for an open finish to the pretty sequence...