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...watch GM struggle over the last two years to hold a price of $40, then $30, $20, $10, and finally just $2. The difference between Chrysler's demise and GM's is like the difference of a house burning down in the Wyoming wilderness versus a skyscraper on fire in Manhattan. Chrysler was never what GM was for many years - the largest company in America. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...happened only in North America.) A pandemic doesn't mean that a new virus is unusually deadly, only that it spreads easily - as H1N1 seems to do. It wasn't possible to wait to find out how virulent H1N1 would be before initiating a global response; like a fire department receiving an emergency call, the responsible choice is to snap into action, even if it later turns out to be a contained blaze...
...always been against Harvard policy to stand on fire escapes, but perhaps it’s time to amend the rule so that it’s illegal to stand underneath them, as well...
Meanwhile, on the streets of the Afghan capital Kabul and the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar, cheap, mass-produced DVDs feature footage of coalition atrocities: mud-brick Afghan villages leveled by allied attacks and ordinary citizens allegedly killed by coalition fire. Also popular: a montage from the anti-Soviet jihad of the 1980s, part of a running effort to portray the current foreign troops as "invaders." Other discs show Taliban executions of so-called traitors and spectacular attacks against coalition forces...
...under Hamas' control. In practice, of course, Hamas will help decide how the money is spent. But lifting the Israeli blockade - along with doing more to stop the smuggling of rockets into Gaza and returning kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit - is crucial to getting a real, long-term cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. Once Gaza's reconstruction begins, Hamas will have an incentive not to provoke Israel and blow up the entire process. The happier Palestinians are with what they have, the harder it will be for Hamas to jeopardize that in the name of a kamikaze mission...