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...bottom-line junkies in Hollywood may look at the middling grosses of Willis's non-hits, and the man's hefty price tag, and conclude that they can do as well with somebody younger and cheaper. But none of today's kids can give an action role the experience, the ingrained grittiness, that he can. There's simply no surrogate for Bruce Willis. As a star and an actor, he's the real, irreplaceable thing...
...Najibullah Zazi is everything the FBI says he is, then the Afghan-born Denver airport-shuttle-bus driver represents a new kind of menace for the U.S. His arrest is a double blessing: it may have thwarted a terrorism plot, and it could give counterterrorism officials a goldmine of information on al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the state of the global jihad...
...backed Shah, of falling short of NPT transparency requirements. Although the IAEA has never accused Iran of trying to build a bomb, intelligence agencies in Israel and the West believe Iran is using its civilian nuclear program, particularly its uranium-enrichment capability, to assemble infrastructure that would give it the means to create nuclear weapons. The specter of a nuclear-armed Iran has, in turn, sparked interest in acquiring nuclear technology among a number of Arab countries that are wary of Iranian power. And, of course, Iran has constantly referred to Israel's nuclear program in alleging a double standard...
...benefit from the perception that it wields a nuclear deterrent. The danger of a regional arms race creates a new and compelling fear - Arabs with nukes - that may prompt Israel to re-examine its assumptions. Still, having developed whatever nuclear capability it may possess precisely in order to give itself a strategic trump card free of dependence on allies, Israel will not easily surrender its ambiguous weapon...
...happened. Bucking tradition, Amva decided that she would run the school. "If men can do it, then why can't I?" the 48-year-old recalls praying. "If you, Allah, are the source of all power, then why do I have to find someone else to run it? Just give me the power. I know that I can do it." After all, she reasoned Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesia's ex-president, was a woman, joining the ranks of "Benazir [Bhutto], and Elizabeth, and the woman Madonna played in that movie" - Evita Peron...