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...thought the earth was round or flat. The response that came out was, "I don't know. I'm trying to take care of my son." I was really nervous. I was totally outside of my comfort zone, and I made a comment that I didn't mean to make. It was a brain fart. I did not know that people were going to hate me as much as they did. I mean, like hate me. My website crashed. But then the women of The View came together and said, If we didn't think you could be here...
...moment may be at hand for a dramatic U.S. initiative, even from a no-drama President. "The two sides seem unable to make peace on their own," says Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser. "I think it would make a lot of sense for the President to announce what he thinks a Middle East peace plan should look like." The elements of such a plan are widely known. Bill Clinton announced a version of it in December 2000, as he was leaving office. Brzezinski cites four major components: a return to 1967 borders, with land swaps...
...Huasteca, an expansive rainforest region in central and northeastern Mexico, is not easy to reach. The adventurous make the eight-hour drive from Mexico City to the state of San Luis Potosi, where some of La Huasteca's best attractions lie. Others knock several hours off the journey time by catching a flight to the state capital (also called San Luis Potosi, or simply San Luis) and then driving over the Sierra Madre mountains. But most holidaymakers still prefer to congregate on Mexico's famous beaches, margaritas in hand...
...impeccable credentials at the head of tribunals investigating war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda - as well as the fact that he is Jewish, is said by those close to him to be a friend of Israel, and is a trustee of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem - would make him acceptable to the Israeli side. Goldstone only agreed to head the inquiry after the U.N. heeded his insistence on expanding the probe to include not only allegations of Israeli war crimes, but also the actions of Palestinian militants shelling Israeli civilians...
...That steady stream of suppliers has seemingly made Russia eager to make deals with its neighbor rather than to lose out to its competitors in the Persian Gulf and the Caspian. Says the Eurasia Group, a risk consultancy in Washington, in its research note on Thursday: "Gazprom increasingly has an incentive to lock in a share of the Chinese market, as it sees growing competition from Central Asian suppliers as well as LNG suppliers such as Australia, Qatar and even Papua New Guinea...