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...Iran, Bush replied: "This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table." When National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley later suggested that the U.S. might be open to offering incentives to encourage Iran to halt its uranium-enrichment program, Bush left the door open. "I'm going to go back and think about the suggestions I've heard," he said...
...Directing Closer was one of the most rewarding projects I have ever worked on. There were times during that rehearsal process that the entire world seemed to come to a halt and give way to the moment we were working on in the room. And I learned more about the theater and life in those few brief weeks of rehearsal than I had from all the times I had acted combined...
...prefers an orderly Syrian withdrawal that would give international and Lebanese forces time to fill the security void. But the emotions stirred up by Hariri's death have raised the prospect of a far messier outcome. Many Lebanese believe the killing was an attempt by Damascus to halt the snowballing challenge to its hegemony. Hariri's death has galvanized the anti-Syria opposition. "There has been a real and dramatic change," says former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel. In Damascus, Syrian citizens wondered whether Lebanese rage over Hariri's death might provoke insurgent attacks against Syrian troops, which could reignite Lebanon...
...medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. "But the magnitude of risk does seem to differ from drug to drug." It's now up to the FDA to decide whether the dangers, which in some drugs start to appear only at high doses, warrant its strongest, black-box warning, which would halt direct-to- consumer advertising and restrict use of the drugs to patients with the greatest medical need...
...create an Islamic state. But in interviews with TIME, senior Iraqi insurgent commanders said several "nationalist" rebel groups--composed predominantly of ex--military officers and what the Pentagon dubs "former regime elements"--have moved toward a strategy of "fight and negotiate." Although they have no immediate plans to halt attacks on U.S. troops, they say their aim is to establish a political identity that can represent disenfranchised Sunnis and eventually negotiate an end to the U.S. military's offensive in the Sunni triangle. Their model is Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, which ultimately earned...