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...aboutery"--joining other politicians in circular arguments blaming the current outrage on some past transgression by the other side. The immediate goad here was said to be a summer full of attacks on local homes with stones and Molotov cocktails, which had been fueled by disputes over who could hang their flags from which lampposts, access for Protestants to shops in the Catholic zone, even which side of the street Catholic parents were walking on when school ended last June...
...smart. To a displaced Alabaman letter writer tired of jokes deprecating the South, she recommends a laugh followed by the remark: "A redneck joke--how unique." To a young man who's not quite ready to be just friends with his ex, she counsels, "You don't have to hang out with anyone you don't want to hang out with, not until you acquire co-workers, in-laws or prison time...
...money out of the bank,” said Zeynep D. Darendeliler ’05. “ We have this kind of stuff going on in Turkey all the time. Two days ago, there was a suicide bomber in a very public place where I always hang out [in Istanbul.] Every place I go seems to explode...
...Meanwhile, Asian markets spent the night jabbing at the panic button. Japan?s Nikkei and Hong Kong?s Hang Seng indexes both slid below its 10,000 level - and that was with innumerable stocks bumping against government-imposed curbs. South Korea's market took the heaviest hit, with the benchmark Kospi sinking 12 percent. Markets in Australia and New Zealand both lost just over 4 percent. Singapore ended down 7.4 percent...
...control for nearly 30 years. Such a plan antagonizes other nuclear powers, like Russia and China, and it raises concerns among European allies that the mighty U.S., so generous with its power since 1945, wants to look after its own interests and let the rest of the world go hang. Star Wars skeptics look to Powell to apply the brakes, to make the true believers see reason before they blithely abandon the treaty and disturb global nuclear stability. Or if missile defense is to go ahead, it needs someone to make its case with reason, firmness and tact, backed...