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Martire, now at No. 2, was equally dominant but even more dramatic. Of Italian, Greek and Lebanese origin, Martire played like a spicy Mediterranean stew, hitting heavy, consistent shots to overpower Brown freshman Adriana Marianella...
...listen to public opinion." In Jordan, authorities prevented a potentially volatile march on the Israeli embassy in Amman with a massive deployment of security forces. King Abdullah II's government says it is considering options including the expulsion of Israel's ambassador. Queen Rania, herself a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, even led one protest. Anger has turned to violence in some Middle Eastern countries. In the small Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain, where the U.S. maintains a major naval facility, a demonstrator died after a throng of protesters broke through the gates of the U.S. embassy. Another protester was killed...
...origin of the flier is still unknown...
Krauthammer brilliantly illustrated the hypocrisy of the U.S. government in its defense of profiling. Not too long ago, the U.S. summoned thousands of presumably innocent men of Islamic origin for "voluntary" questioning. And now, with tens of thousands of airline passengers' lives at stake daily, officials are intimidated by a civil-libertarian backlash and are equating the threat posed by the very same ethnic group with that of a bunch of Irish nuns? Give me a break! RON VINOKOOR Takarazuka, Japan...
...first Peruvian president of indigenous origin, Toledo said he has always been surrounded by the devastating effects of poverty, including the premature deaths of seven of his 16 siblings...