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...Bracha - the Mount of Blessing - is a windswept hilltop settlement of Jews overlooking the Palestinian city of Nablus. According to biblical tradition, it is where Joshua and the children of Israel first entered the Holy Land. And, on Aug. 18, Mike Huckabee - a Baptist preacher, two-time governor of Arkansas and once and perhaps future Republican presidential candidate - received a heartfelt blessing from the local Orthodox Jewish minister. Rabbi Eliezer Melamed prayed that Huckabee would become President so that he could emulate the ancient Persian king Cyrus the Great, who encouraged the Jews to rebuild Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem...
...greeted Huckabee on Aug. 17. "It's very easy to live in America and tell us to keep fighting the Palestinians," Oppenheimer told TIME. "We deeply believe that the two-state solution is an Israeli interest, and before someone from abroad comes to speak to us about taking over land and neglecting peace, he should remember that he is not the one who will have to fight in the army, stand at the checkpoints and continue to fight wars because there is no vision for peace in this country." (See pictures of the divided city of Jerusalem...
...South Korean lore, the windswept tropical island of Jeju, which sits just off the country's southern coast, used to be known as the land of "manys": as in, many winds, many rocks (of the volcanic variety) and many widows (of fisherman husbands who perished in the choppy waters offshore). But folklore can only do so much, and now, 21st century Korea has a real-life legend that Jeju can be rightly proud of: its most famous native son, Yang Yong-eun, a.k.a. the Tiger Tamer...
...that the propagandists really hit their stride. In the preface of a 220-page paperback titled A Young Man's Memoirs on His Escape from South Korea, the author writes, "I deserted the south, which is regarded as a burial ground for human beings, and went to the blissful land of the north." For good measure, he adds, "South Korea is a living hell unfit for human habitation." (See rare pictures from inside North Korea...
Like many of her peers, New Yorker Trina Thompson has struggled to land a job since graduating from Monroe College in April with a degree in IT. But instead of blaming the recession, she is suing her alma mater to recoup $70,000 in tuition fees, accusing the school's career-advancement office of failing to, well, advance her career. Monroe's defense? It's impossible for any college to guarantee employment--"especially in this economy...