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...never really think about all the work and preparation that goes into a fashion shoot when flipping through a magazine the morning after your last final. Instead, fashion magazines lull you into a passive receptiveness by presenting a complete scene, a slice of life that happens to include size zero pants and $1,000 belts. I know that the scenes are fake and the models are paid to act like soulmates after having been introduced for the first time some five minutes earlier. I know that the clothes are probably tailored to fit just right and the photographers have...
...MIDDLE EAST After a Lull, Violence Returns Tentative steps toward ending more than 15 months of bloodshed stumbled when two Islamic militants stormed an Israeli army outpost near the Gaza Strip, breaking a Hamas-declared suspension of violence in Israel. The attackers killed four soldiers, members of a Bedouin Arab battalion, before being shot dead. In retaliation, Israeli bulldozers destroyed 32 houses in the Gaza refugee camp that had been home to the two assailants and ripped up the runway of the Palestinian-controlled international airport...
...sharp rise in the number of shooting incidents in the West Bank, particularly in the northern sector. A harsh military response by Israel in the territories followed by renewed Palestinian attempts to conduct suicide bombings inside (Israel)." Harel questions the timing of Karmi's assassination, given the relative lull in violence that had followed Yasser Arafat's mid-December cease-fire call...
...little strategy behind the assault, and controlled fire wasn't a feature. Lurking behind corners, or popping out windows, the fighters sprayed rounds, oblivious to curious market shoppers. The exchange was won by weight of numbers; more fire poured in than came out. The crack of grenades brought a lull...
...before the speech, Thaksin's approval ratings were starting to slip, falling from a high of 72% in May to 52% in August, according to a poll by Bangkok's Assumption University. Pollsters said it hadn't fallen further because people don't see any alternative. That shouldn't lull Thaksin into thinking he can ignore the King's advice. Says Sem Pringpuangkaew, a Thaksin loyalist who organized the nationwide petition drive in support of the Prime Minister while the PM was on trial for concealing his assets earlier this year: "Everybody has to listen to the King, including...