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...Dazed and confused 41. Prom-night trauma 42. Pay-stub inits. 43. Jung is its CEO 44. Polite chap 45. They're never returned 48. Be out of sorts 49. Its EVP won't retract accusations against Clinton 50. Roadside assistance org. 51. Sacrifice-fly stat 52. __ Vashem (Holocaust memorial visited by the Pope...
Quizzically, Assad has not only refrained from making peaceful overtures, but has indulged in vitriolic rhetoric that presses the Israeli public's most sensitive nerve. In recent weeks, the official Syrian press--the mouthpiece of the regime--compared the Jewish state to Nazi Germany and denied the Holocaust. To further alienate Israelis, Syria has stepped up support for the terrorist group Hezbollah. Barak has promised his people a referendum should he reach an agreement with his Syrian interlocutors, but these statements, coupled with Syrian-backed violence in Lebanon, harden the Israeli electorate against a peace treaty with Syria and make...
...Palestinian homeland, to the recent rapprochement with Israel--goals that the Pontiff could not alter simply to wow an audience. The strictly spiritual stops on the trip were interspersed with so many loaded encounters, shifting on an almost hourly basis--If this is Thursday it must be...Barak? Holocaust survivors? The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem?--that the Pope seemed like an FBI trainee in one of those fake towns with the cardboard figures, each requiring a different response, popping up one after another...
...Deheisha, the speech's effect depended on whether one listened to the Pope's music or his words. He made no mention of flash points such as the "silence" of Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII or the distinction between sins of misguided church members and the possible misguidance of the church as a whole. Some Jewish leaders later pointed this out. But most echoed the American Jewish Congress's Phil Baum, who admitted that "it was perhaps wishful thinking that the Pope would explicitly apologize in his visit to Yad Vashem today for the silence of Pope Pius...
...does at least end in Kosovo, the place where the West finally found the will and the means to intervene effectively in a regional calamity. Inferno is a book with the weight and density of one of those great 20th century works of broken-hearted testimony, of the Holocaust documentary Shoah or the string quartets of Shostakovich. With 382 black-and-white pictures spread across oversize pages, it has the heft of a gravestone, which is not so different from what it is, a cenotaph for the last victims of the 20th century. What it tells us is that history...