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...think a lot of the jokes are funny. Leno has been hilarious and kind-hearted in his jokes. I thought Letterman's Top 10 was really funny. But I think that people who are not professional comedians and maybe not well intended should put a lid on it and let the man survive the injury...
...view is that he can simply maintain an extended cease-fire and keep political negotiations to a minimum. The Bush administration doesn't accept that view, and will try to persuade Sharon that it doesn't work - a long-term cease-fire won't be enough to keep a lid on things from the Palestinian side. Without both sides committing themselves to political negotiations, there would be an inevitable resurgence of violence...
...Neither side is particularly positive about the prospects for the cease-fire - their demeanor speaks of a truce imposed from the outside by an international community concerned to keep a lid on the crisis. As the Economist put it, this is a "peace of the truculent." Both sides are accusing the other of failing to do their bit (the Palestinians are not arresting Hamas and Islamic Jihad members; the Israelis have not comprehensively lifted their closure of Palestinian areas) and warning that time is running...
...case, Jesus' radical new synthesis--and his dramatic preaching of it--was dangerous, especially in an atmosphere that Schwartz says had turned into "a tinderbox." Herod had managed to keep a lid on anti-Roman sentiment for most of his reign. But starting with his fatal illness in 4 B.C. and continuing over the careers of several less effective successors, a series of bloodily suppressed revolts erupted...
...With long-term Israeli-Palestinian political negotiations in the deep freeze, the region appears to be settling back into the relative stability of a low-intensity conflict. Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon hopes to put a lid on Palestinian resistance by selectively striking at activists, while holding out the carrot of easing Israel's collective punishment of blockades and curfews. But he is caught between mounting pressure from his right-wing base to strike back and concern that a heavy-handed response may leave Israel even more isolated internationally. The latest retaliation may well have been targeted at Palestinian militants...