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...much groupies as avatars of the fictional superheroes, they spent World War II getting off on doing their truth-justice-and-the-American-way thing. Disbanded in 1944, they reconvened with some new personnel, and by the '60s were important factors in the country's social and foreign policy. By 1985, when the main story takes place, Eddie is one of the last original Minutemen/Watchmen still in action - and after being on the losing end of a ferocious fight in his high-rise apartment, splat, he's comedy history. (See pictures of animated movies...
...sophistication of the operation raises questions not only about the identity of its authors, but about the failure to afford the visiting cricket team sufficient protection. Foreign teams, including Australia, England and India, have all refused to play in Pakistan in recent years because of security fears. But Pakistani authorities have insisted that security is fine. It will be harder to do that now. "The happiness and joy that cricket brought to our country has been destroyed by the violence we saw today," says Ali Shujaat, owner of the Lahore Cricket Academy. "We have got infrastructure worth millions of dollars...
...brazen nature of the attack and its high-profile targets will sink Pakistan's reputation further, analysts say, driving away foreign investment and delivering a blow to the country's much-celebrated national sport. The Pakistani rupee and the main stock exchange both dipped at the news. "It's a very serious incident that escalates the present state of affairs," says Masood, the retired general. "It gives an idea of how the frontiers of terrorism are expanding in Pakistan. It also shows how Pakistan is vulnerable. It is no longer capable of hosting international events...
...Druze Arab woman passes through a United Nations checkpoint, leaving the Israeli-occupied Golan for the arms of her future husband in Syria, unlikely to ever again see her family until there is peace in the Middle East. If Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's handshake with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem at a conference in Egypt on Monday was any portent, that day may come sooner rather than later. (See photos of Syria's mysterious facility that was destroyed by a 2007 airstrike...
...change Syrian behavior, Washington encouraged Israel to ignore the Syrian charm offensive. But since the Obama Administration took office with the intention of repairing America's frayed relations in the region, the much discussed - but rarely traveled - road to Damascus has suddenly been busy with American emissaries, including Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, who visited Syria last month. The flurry of diplomatic excitement caused by Clinton's public handshake with Moallem, followed by Tuesday's announcement that Washington will soon send two high-level envoys to Damascus for talks, is both a welcome sign of thaw...