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...have been a mourning event,” Stern said. “It really does not show that productive steps are being taken to achieve peace.” Several members of the PSC said that in this case, politics were simply unavoidable. “The very notion that you can pay tribute to [Palestinian] deaths in an apolitical way is completely fallacious,” the PSC wrote in a statement. “Mourning the dead without talking about how and why they died dishonors their memory.” Rohr said she still hopes...
Some critics think a kind of political correctness may be at play in the military. Says retired Lieut. Colonel Steve Russell, an infantry officer who served in Iraq: "Many senior officers who decide these awards have succumbed to the notion that every soldier is doing a great job and no one should be held out as better than another...
...general and more specifically on Bonpoint, which has always asserted the charm of Liberty prints and pin tucks over high-decibel, mini-me ensembles. Bonpoint is less a demonstration of that old clunker "good taste," with its black-or-white dress-code overtones, than of the marvelous French notion of un got sr: almost anything can work so long as it's not overdone, the proportions are considered, and it's pulled together with style?along with good shoes ("Properly shod, children can go anywhere," Bonpoint founder Marie-France Cohen likes...
...fall outside the definition of “reasonable person.” And when Snow dealt with the question of terminology at the Oct. 20 White House press briefing, his defense against Fearon’s claim was less than persuasive: “I think the general notion is a civil war is when you have people who use the American Civil War or other civil wars as an example, where people break up into clearly identifiable feuding sides clashing for supremacy...
...Still, the notion of a "Shi'ite crescent" emerging in the Middle East may be based more on Sunni fears than Shi'ite ambitions. The anti-Western alliance, which includes Sunni Palestinians, is more political than religious in nature, motivated by antipathy toward Israel and a determination to rid the region of U.S. influence. Hizballah calculates that by toppling the Western-backed government in Beirut, U.S. influence in Lebanon and the wider region will be curbed. The conflict playing out in Lebanon, then, may not simply be based on the country's age-old sectarian tensions, but in a regional...