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...More Best & Worst As your lists of the year acknowledge, every year is characterized by good and bad developments [Dec. 24]. To my mind, the best news items of 2007 were: #1 Some peace and refugees returned to Iraq. #2 More focus on climate change. #3 Dialogue between Presidents Bush and Putin. #4 Talks between Israelis and Palestinians. #5 No war with Iran. #6 Shakira enrolled to study at a university...
...both sides. In particular, Israel will have to give up land and dismantle its settlements in the West Bank. Palestinians need to forget the notion of a right of return—at this point it is too late to hit the rewind button—and instead focus on reparations. The two sides must also take action to control their militant wings so that the interests of the few who oppose a settlement do not torpedo a brokered peace...
...truth is that neither Benedict nor his secular critics in Rome are all that interested in revisiting the debates of the past; there is plenty of fresh intellectual manna now to tussle over. And Benedict, with his rigorous academic background, is increasingly the focus of the attention. Indeed, the most highly charged moment of Benedict XVI's papacy thus far came in the gracious confines of a German university lecture hall. On that late afternoon of September 12, 2006, the Pope's discourse on faith, reason and violence at the University of Regensberg, where he'd once taught theology...
...choreographed a strong piece to Ciara’s “Like A Boy.” Costumed in DHAs and cut-off tees, Ola S. Canty ’11, Samantha R. Reiser ’11, Odstrcil and Cooperman effectively captured the song’s focus on liberation. The choreography, which focused on shoulder movements and torso contractions, expertly expressed the masculinity of Ciara’s words while maintaining fluid transitions between steps...
...talk louder, he spent most of the day answering questions about relationships: his and Diana's, Diana's and Prince Philip's, Diana's with Dodi's versus that with her ex-boyfriend, heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan. But it was near the end of the day that focus turned to the friction between Diana and her mother, Frances Shand Kydd...