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...curb the building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank a "mistake." It's not the kind of language you'd expect from a Foreign Minister, but Lieberman, 51, doesn't care. "I don't like political correctness," he says with a shrug. "I say exactly what I mean, and I mean what...
...against the militant group last winter. "His views have a constituency," says Hanegbi. "People want someone who will represent their fears and frustrations." Lieberman insists he supports an independent Palestinian state and says Israel is "ready to start negotiations without preconditions." But in Lieberman's view, peace doesn't mean cohabitation. "His governing idea is, Jews on one side, Arabs on the other," says a senior official...
...something more muddled, this doesn't imply absolute decline. The U.S. retains a lot of strong points - great universities, millions of ambitious immigrants, a culture that celebrates risk-taking - that are hard for any other nation to match. Just because the U.S. is no longer all-important doesn't mean it will no longer be competitive. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...closing a loophole that has allowed doctors to send patients to hospitals they had a stake in, so long as that hospital served a rural population, or the stake was in a "whole hospital," not just a wing or department; the Congressional Budget Office predicts closing this loophole would mean fewer overall procedures, saving $1 billion in Medicare costs over ten years...
...Last year I did a movie called Milk. Imagine my surprise when I found out that Milk was the name of a guy, not my favorite drink. I mean, I love milk the drink. Chocolate milk. But never strawberry milk. I did the movie anyway, and now gay people can have jobs...