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...Jewish people to have a homeland as intended by the U.N., and the Israeli people have the right to defend themselves against terrorist tactics. Yet given the painful history of the crimes against the Jewish people, it saddens me to see the disproportionate response by Israel. Israel should hold to the highest standards of human rights and fairness. It should be careful that it does not become what it seeks to defend itself against. Greg Bergh, CAPE TOWN...
...went into political fundraising--first for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and then for a little-known Arkansas Governor named Bill Clinton, who chose him to be White House political director after Clinton was elected in 1992. It was the first of a series of jobs Emanuel would hold in the Clinton White House before leaving in 1999 for the investment firm Wasserstein, Perella & Co., where he reportedly made a hefty $18 million in just two years...
...sooner or later the switchover will happen. And when it does, we should take a moment to salute the passing of the analog era. Just as vinyl records gave rise to scratching and skipping, analog TV created a whole gallery of hallucinatory special effects: ghosting, snow, psychedelic colors, vertical hold. We hated them at the time, but we may yet come to miss them. Digital signals are more robust than analog--they're less prone to distortion, and when they break up, they do it in tidy little squares, which aren't nearly as fun. In other words, after...
...testimony to the man's sheer inspirational power. Reagan's movement was called a revolution, but this may be more than that - the beginning of a whole new era of Obama-inspired and Obama-led citizen involvement. During the transition, the Obama website called for supporters to hold community meetings to discuss their health-care priorities. A staggering 10,000 meetings purportedly were held; 5,000 sent written reports - more paper! - to the transition office. This is a new kind of politics, with the potential to be the most powerful citizen army in U.S. history. If so, it will more...
...Water landings (attempts to bring an aircraft down in a controlled manner on water) and water crashes (which are anything but controlled) are somewhat of a mystery to the engineers who design, build and study aircraft safety features and procedures. It's difficult to predict how an aircraft will hold up on impact and after crashing: will it break up and quickly sink, or stay intact and float long enough for passengers to evacuate, as it is designed to do? Variables such as the size and direction of waves, the altitude of the aircraft, and the speed at which...