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Folk wisdom holds that a change is as good as a rest. But as one Prime Minister departs and another takes office in Britain, a merciless salvo of changes is leaving some folk in Westminster praying for a rest. Civil servants have found themselves scurrying at cartoon speeds to keep the government ticking over, while politicians are distracted by concerns over the future - their own and the country...
Will anyone take up the offer? The Bush Administration probably won't consider any contact with Hamas until the Gaza leadership mends ties with Abbas' West Bank government. That may yet happen. Though Hamas was merciless against its foes in the first hours of the Gaza conquest, the group declared an amnesty for Fatah's thousands of fighters, including a dozen senior officials. Even after Abbas kicked Hamas out of his government, the group has been careful not to pick fights with him. The group's political leader, Khaled Mashaal, declared that "Abbas has legitimacy ... he is an elected President...
...early days of the Iraq war, the analogy of choice for the Bush Administration was the post-World War II occupations of Japan and Germany. They had been bitter enemies of the United States; were both destroyed in a merciless world war; and eventually turned into peaceful, democratic allies of the first order. Anyone who said democracy couldn't come at the barrel of a gun was denying the obvious...
...they leave France" [April 16]: There is a typically French disease that prompts citizens to overcriticize the country. Those judgments are, most of the time, merciless and exaggerated. I've traveled a lot, and I can tell you that people in the rest of the world are able to be supportive of their own country without being stupidly patriotic. You can certainly find thousands of faults with France, but there are still a million reasons to stay here, one of the best places to live in the world. Maybe the real problem is that France simply has too many ungrateful...
...Titus Andronicus,” one of Shakespeare’s earlier plays, depicts the mental and emotional breakdown of Titus, a Roman war hero whose stubborn adherence to Roman tradition sparks numerous acts of merciless cruelty and revenge against his family to the point of their complete destruction...