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...days after agreeing to indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority through U.S. envoy George Mitchell, Israel announced on March 9 the approval of 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, whose five-day visit to the region makes him the highest-level member of the Obama Administration to visit Israel to date, condemned the plan, saying that it "undermines the trust" needed for negotiations to proceed after a 14-month deadlock...
This term first appeared in 1996, when the Philadelphia Inquirer noted that Joe Lunardi, a spokesman for St. Joseph's University and a college-hoops junkie, referred to himself as a "bracketologist" when projecting the tournament field. In 2002, ESPN.com featured Lunardi's "bracketology" predictions, and since then the word and Lunardi himself have become as ubiquitous a March presence as inebriated St. Patrick's Day revelers. Dozens of other "experts" have entered the bracketology game, and there's even a website that tracks the performance of the pundits, as if they were evaluating stocks or anything else of consequence...
...seem to play a good seven or eight innings during our game, but we always seem to have that one inning where we run into some troubles,” Crimson coach Joe Walsh said...
...Obama Administration is calling Israel out. "An insult," huffed David Axelrod after the Israeli government welcomed Vice President Joe Biden to the Holy Land by announcing plans to build 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem. The Israelis are sending "a deeply negative signal," Hillary Clinton told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a 43-minute phone call after Biden had left the country. Israel's ambassador to Washington was quoted calling it the biggest "crisis" between the U.S. and Israel in the past 30 years...
...answered Clinton by saying that "the government of Israel has proven over the last year that it is committed to peace, both in words and actions." Clearly, the Israeli leader is through eating crow following the furor caused by his government's public humiliation of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden last week. (See how Israel snubbed Joe Biden...