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...Probably what draws Frank and Laurel together is their mutual capacity for truth telling, which may also explain why Laurel doesn't have a boy friend. Most guys don't much like women who lack the winsome gene. That's not a problem for Frank, and the course of their love and his rehabilitation runs relatively smoothly. This is in contradistinction to life in the Krzeminski mob back in Buffalo. They are being decimated by the rival O'Leary gang, whose sneering, sadistic leader (Dennis Farina) is in no mood to take prisoners. A sober Frank's odds-balancing presence...
Crushing Hamas may be a chimerical goal, but reforming it need not be, if the U.S., Israel and its allies can devise ways to work with the Islamists in areas of mutual interest. A senior Israeli intelligence officer says, "If Hamas wants to maintain a reasonable life in Gaza, with gas, electricity and food coming in, they'll have to deal with the 'Israeli devil' a hundred times a day." That kind of engagement holds at least as much potential for progress as the U.S. policy of weeding out extremists and dealing only with pliable, so-called moderates. Reaching...
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...friendship between Putin and President George W. Bush, begun several years ago when Bush testified to the alleged spiritual depth of his Russian counterpart's soul, hasn't helped. The fact that similarly staged "friendships"--between F.D.R. and "Uncle Joe" Stalin, Nixon and Brezhnev, Clinton and Yeltsin--ended in mutual disappointment did not prevent Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from boasting not long ago that U.S.-Russian relations were now the best in history. Surely it would be preferable to achieve a genuine, sustainable improvement before staging public theatrics designed to create the illusion that one has taken place...
Anglicanism matters, and not just because it's one of the largest Protestant denominations. Like Roman Catholicism, it is global, uniting varied ethnicities in an overarching understanding of faith. But Anglicans have forgone Catholicism's authoritarianism, staking their unity on a continual conversation and mutual respect. The sharp debate over homosexuality crystallizes a challenge facing everyone in an uneasy, newly wired world: Can the North--rich and imbued with an ethos of individual rights--and the poorer South find a constructive interdependence? Speaking to TIME on a cool May morning, Williams insisted, "I don't think schism is inevitable...