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...Night” and president of the Harvard African Students Association, says, “Gumboots was one of the dance groups we wanted because it is something a lot of people are not familiar with.” “Bafana, bafana.” The dancers halt, stand, and salute. “Saluti!” they ululate, as a tribute to those that inspired their dance, honoring a story about perseverance and triumph, about reaching out and looking homewards, about celebrating an African rhythm. —Staff writer Margherita Pignatelli can be reached...
...Whatever the intent, Obama seemed unfazed. In a press conference after the two leaders had met privately for about 90 minutes, the President emphasized that Israel must start taking the peace process seriously by putting a halt to the construction of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories, lifting the blockade on Gaza and accepting the idea of a Palestinian state next door. Obama's no-nonsense words were a far cry from the easy ride that Israeli Premiers got from the Bush Administration. As columnist Ben Caspit wrote in Israeli daily Ma'ariv, "There wasn't a single blister that...
...said that the demanding academics and busy extracurricular life usually put professional modeling careers to a halt...
...Such stark, simplistic logic appeals to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but it skirts a couple of key questions about any such attack. For starters, would it actually succeed in putting a halt to Iran's nuclear program? Leadership at the Pentagon appears to think the answer is no. But what Israel and few others talk about, or not convincingly at least, is the other very risky unknown about such a strike: how exactly Iran would respond to it. Speculating a few weeks ago, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen told the Wall Street Journal that Iran...
...nothing more than an Iranian proxy. And while the Obama Administration has begun unfurling a strategy of engagement aimed at addressing the nuclear question and other points of tension with Iran, Netanyahu has warned that time is short and that Israel will act militarily if U.S. diplomacy fails to halt uranium enrichment in Iran. (The Pentagon fears that military action will be ineffective in stopping Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons, and would trigger an even more dangerous regional war.) While Netanyahu - like Maliki, Karzai and Zardari - will likely utter the platitudes Washington expects of him, he's unlikely to actually...