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...misguided hope that Israel might crush the Iranian-backed militants of Hizballah. Blair's great skill as a negotiator is that he can coax enemies into the same room and mesmerize every individual that he's in total agreement with them. That's how he brought peace in Northern Ireland, a major triumph of his decade as British prime minister. But Blair is a master of the broad stroke, and much of his job will require the talents of a miniaturist, delving into the minutiae of where Israeli checkpoints can be removed inside the Palestinian territories...
...move that's anathema to the West, but gaining traction amongst people sick of the constant fighting, and increasingly willing to do anything to stop the violence. "What is wrong with talking to the Taliban? Look at Northern Ireland. They were considered terrorists once, and look how that all ended. With glasses of champagne," says Ahmadzai...
John Peterson knows a thing or two about the struggles of the family farm. After losing his northern Illinois farm, and a sizeble majority of his land, in the 1980s due to a combination of skyrocketing interest rates, mounting bank loans and underperforming crops, Peterson was poised years later to fail a second time as he tried to farm his remaining acreage. But in the early '90s, he found salvation in an unlikely place: a small but passionate group of environmentally minded Chicago shoppers who happened to be on the hunt for a rural farmer rich in organic produce...
...avoid provoking Israel--in part because, as Major General Giora Eiland, retired head of Israel's National Security Council, says, "military targets in Gaza just got a lot clearer. There's only one color now--and that's Hamas." On June 20, Israel fired missiles at rocket launchers in northern Gaza and engaged in a firefight with militants, killing four. Hamas leaders know that their first order of business is restoring law and order, not starting a war with Israel. Hamas has tried to pressure other militant cells to stop shooting rockets into southern Israel...
...19th century onwards, when the ancient Silk Road that crisscrossed Mandawa began to be eclipsed by the steamship and the railway, the Marwaris fled the desert for the flourishing tropical port of Calcutta. There, many amassed fortunes, initially as speculators in opium, sugar and jute in the choked northern bazaars of the city. After World War I, some began to invest in heavy industry. The late patriarch G.D. Birla built some of India's biggest jute, sugar, cement, automobile and polyester factories. And Lakshmi Mittal amassed a global fortune in steel...