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...whereas Jews claim but one—Jerusalem, site of the Temple of Solomon and Herod? What accounts for the astonishing disparity between how much land the Arabs got in history and how little was left to Jews?Were I a Palestinian Arab citizen of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (34, 495 square miles, population 5.8 million), with its magnificent city of Petra, I would wonder why we didn’t federate with the Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank when that territory was in our possession until 1967? Why didn’t we settle our refugees...
...Humanitarian Response Index 2007 rankings: 1. Sweden 2. Norway 3. Denmark 4. Netherlands 5. European Commission 6. Ireland 7. Canada 8. New Zealand 9. United Kingdom 10. Switzerland 11. Finland 12. Luxembourg 13. Germany 14. Australia 15. Belgium 16. United States 17. Spain 18. Japan 19. France 20. Austria 21. Portugal 22. Italy 23. Greece
...developing nations, which have welcomed the biggest influx of American students—the number of students in China, for instance, increased 35 percent in 2004-2005, and India and Argentina witnessed a 53 percent growth. Compare such statistics to more developed nations like Spain or the United Kingdom, which saw flat or negative growth...
...with pathos, as much for monster as for man. Grendel is a horror, a plague, to Hrothgar's kingdom, but he seems plaintive, lonely, in his cave. He complains to his mother in some Scandivanian tongue, as if Gollum had shown up in a Bergman film. Up close he has the physiognomy of Rondo Hatton, the actor whose acromegalic face got him roles as villains in ?40s mysteries and horror films. Grendel too seems typecast for villainy, but maybe the humans just don't understand how close he is to them. Why, they might...
...North Korea, Bolton cites (unconfirmed) reports of the Hermit Kingdom's collaboration with Syria on a secret nuclear facility as evidence that the denuclearization deal between the U.S. and North Korea is not working. Talks with North Korea continue, he notes, and the U.S. looks set to invite Syria to its Middle East peace conference later this month. Uncomfortable issues are not being raised, Bolton charges, for fear of disrupting negotiations that he sees as pointless to begin with...