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...Chinese culture after the noodles, head for the hills to Tera-machi, or temple street, so named for the shrines that flank its winding path, the largest of them built by Chinese immigrants in the early 1600s. It's a great place to jog in the early morning, when the air is thick with incense and the temple keepers sweep the grounds...
...equation, rendering moot traditional concerns over the sensibilities of the "Arab street." In this view, according to the New York Times, is that "an Iraq under new governance could become a new Western ally, helping to reduce American dependency on bases in Saudi Arabia, to secure Israel's eastern flank and act as a wedge between Iran and Syria." The idea of a democratic Iraq remaining intact as a single national entity, let alone becoming an overnight ally of the West, is at the very least regarded with some skepticism. And talk of a democratic Arab state "securing Israel...
...movies, the inmates would be getting ready to make their escape, or to whip a team of bullying screws. But Siwa has no time for the shenanigans perpetrated by prisoners in films like Victory or The Longest Yard. Guards flank the field, sticks unsheathed. But there are carrots too: inmates are allowed to watch live broadcasts of the real World Cup, provided they don't brawl or gamble...
Solving the Middle East puzzle will take skills quite different from the instinctive judgments Bush prizes. He would need to take on Sharon and Arafat directly, sketch a plan for battling with his right flank and override Cheney and Rumsfeld in favor of Powell. None of that seems possible anytime soon. But American public opinion is unlikely to let him run in place forever. The dangers to the region are too great. And Bush still wants to take on Iraq, which might be enough to persuade him to get involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks himself. "The only person capable...
...Solving the Middle East puzzle will take skills quite different from the instinctive judgments Bush prizes. He would need to take on Sharon and Arafat directly, sketch a plan for battling with his right flank and override Cheney and Rumsfeld in favor of Powell. None of that seems possible anytime soon. But American public opinion is unlikely to let him run in place forever. The dangers to the region are too great. And Bush still wants to take on Iraq, which might be enough to persuade him to get involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks himself. "The only person capable...