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...Palestinian negotiators warn, however, that before the biologist's government is installed, Israel will have to lift its siege of Gaza and free dozens of captive Hamas parliamentarians. But that will only happen if Palestinian militants release Corporal Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier snatched on the Gaza border last June. Negotiations are underway to free the corporal, but complications could arise...
Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy is set to chair the Senate committee that oversees education. Although he has bitterly accused President Bush of underfunding the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, Kennedy has said he still believes in its principle: using standards to lift every student's performance. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings told TIME last week that she and the Senator had made the act's reauthorization a joint priority even before the election. "Kennedy and I talked this summer about the need to get this done--win, lose or draw," she said...
...Republican establishment was expecting the movement to deliver loyal conservative voters, the libertarians--who want to lift controls on both guns and narcotics--are proving more complicated creatures. Cathleen Converse used to be a by-the-book conservative in South Carolina. But she says that the free-spending, prying Bush Administration sped up her defection from the G.O.P. and eventually brought her husband and her to the Free State Project. "As Republicans showed their true colors," she says, "we had to choose the side of liberty." She adds, "Back home, most of the people thought we were crazy. But here...
...full effect, veering unpredictably from off-key wailing to deep, eerie harmonization. The concept of dynamic variation is anathema to him: for ODB, if it’s worth saying, it’s worth shouting. The opening of the record’s first track, “Lift Ya Skirt,” is reminiscent of ODB’s terrifying debut on 1993’s “Enter the Wu-Tang.” After a spate of expletives and threats, Ol’ Dirty tells us that he’s the same...
...government agreement between the Fatah organization of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Islamist militants of Hamas, led by Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh. Following the shelling, the two sides broke off talks to form a technocrat-led coalition government that would temper Hamas's militancy and allow international donors to lift their embargo on funds and most aid to the Palestinian territories...