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...prophets and religions all threats and evils of war, so that peace can prevail in the land of peace." My father is lecturing at Cairo University. In our apartment we tack up posters bought in the bazaar: drawings of a somber Sadat, wreathed by doves. Our Sadat posters last longer than Sadat does: two years later, he's dead, shot by extremists angered at his peace talks with Israel...
...what, for the past three decades, has been nigh on unthinkable: that Washington should withdraw from the peace process until the Palestinians and Israelis invite them back and decide finally to get serious. "It's time for a radically new approach," wrote the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman last November. "I mean something no U.S. Administration has ever dared to do: take down our PEACE-PROCESSING IS US sign and just go home...
...Even then, a plan to open before the 2008 Olympics was scuttled by delays in Qianmen's construction; the restaurant was then only open briefly before being shut again during the huge security operation surrounding the celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic last October. "The restaurant business is difficult anywhere," says Garnaut. "But you do probably need more patience in China than elsewhere...
...widely expected to clean up the mess it took the Bush Administration eight years to create. And he has to do it while dealing with some of the worst partisanship I can recall in recent history. Anyone who remembers Economics 101 knows unemployment is the hardest and last problem to be solved. Give the President a break. Donna J. Moore Moweaqua...
...chaos, with tens of thousands of impoverished souls pouring across its border into China. But Beijing knows no one is going to attack North Korea - knows that in its heart and soul. It knows no such thing about Iran. Prior to Barack Obama's summit meeting with Hu Jintao last year, two U.S. diplomats quietly slipped into Beijing and, in secret, reinforced the obvious: There's this other country in the region called Israel and, well, we're just not sure what they might do. (See what Ahmadinejad's win means for other world leaders...