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...Israeli policy "put a lot of pressure on the Palestinians in Gaza, which helped to radicalize them without any compensatory relaxation for the Palestinians on the West Bank." The U.S.'s new "West Bank first" strategy aims to correct that shortcoming, but given the Palestinians' defiant mood, the tardy gift could turn into a nasty surprise for Abbas. Robert Malley, a Middle East expert with the International Crisis Group, says that "we've lost so much credibility among Palestinians that the people we try to help, we hurt, and those we try to hurt, we often inadvertently help...
Before my baby came along, my dog was my baby. He arrived in my life the day after my wedding, a gift that my husband and I had no memory of registering for at Bed Bath & Beyond. But an 8-week-old basset hound--all ears and belly and panda paws--is way cuter than a vacuum cleaner. We set his quivering body down on the city sidewalk, and he promptly sucked down a chicken bone. We named him Hoover...
...Church. But indulgences are apparently misunderstood. The Catholic Encyclopedia, in an eye-rolling, "Here we go again" tone, scolds that an indulgence "is not a permission to commit sin, nor a pardon of future sin." No doubt environmentalists would insist the same about carbon credits: they are not a gift certificate or get-out-of-jail-free card for would-be polluters. But they sure do play...
...does the best Al Pacino impression? -Quan Ha, Littleton, CO Certainly not me. Kevin Spacey comes close. Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument...
...conspiracy," says Peter Hill, editor of London newspaper the Daily Express. "There's an enormous number of people who simply do not believe that [Diana's death] was just an accident." For whatever reason - nostalgia, loyalty, morbid curiosity - readers are still drawn to Diana. "She was a gift to the media when she was alive," says former royal correspondent Nicholas Owen, whose book Diana: The People?s Princess was published June 4. "And the extraordinary thing is that even today, when a magazine or newspaper editor almost anywhere in the world is a bit worried about circulation figures, he only...