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...Jewish leaders also fret about a two-part Armageddon scenario. The first part is that, according to Evangelical prophecy, all the Jews are either forcibly converted or killed in the last reel. The second part is that Evangelicals are trying to bring on Armageddon as a necessary condition for the Second Coming of Christ. Yet both parts are red herrings. First of all, we Jews don't believe in the Second Coming. Either we are right about this, or we are wrong, in which case we'll have some 'splainin' to do to Jesus. Either...
...industry hopes--prays--that audiences believe all the hype for these threequels. Movie people know that for every Spider-Man, there's a thudding Hulk; for every Shrek, a wildly off-orbit Treasure Planet. They also fret that with so many seen-it-before films clogging the May-June release schedule, sequel fatigue may set in. Pandya suggests this could hurt the June 15 opening of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, a follow-up to the 2005 film Fantastic Four...
...irony, of course, is that Israel set out to destroy Hizballah last summer and ended up making its leader, Nasrallah, only stronger. In Beirut, Lebanese politicians fret that it's only because Hizballah came out of the war with Israel relatively unscathed that Nasrallah is attempting his current power play of bringing down the Siniora government. Given the current tumult in the Middle East, the outcome of a second fight to the finish for Israel could prove even more unpredictable - and possibly disastrous...
...fret, fellow Harvardians. This is not the beginning of our end. A little time will cure our hangover. And maybe find our passing game...
Bush had come to Hanoi, once the capital of godless North Vietnam, for an annual international forum, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting. Attendance at such summits is perhaps the part of the presidency he will miss least, press conferences excepted. And this time, he had more to fret about than staged intimacy and flabby bloviating. What about a nation that overwhelmingly backs its President when he sends troops into battle, then sours on the idea when swaths of society decide that intervention was a mistake? That was the U.S. in 1968, and it's the country Bush could wind...