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...Early-'80s Lebanon ought to have served as a cautionary tale heading off the U.S.'s more recent adventure in Iraq. In 1982, the U.S. backed an Israeli plan to invade Lebanon and destroy the Palestine Liberation Organization, kick out Syrian troops and install a pro-Western, Israel-friendly government led by Lebanese Maronite Christian leader Bashir Gemayel. Israel drove out the PLO, only to start negotiating with Yasser Arafat after a Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza trip a few years later. Suspected Syrian agents assassinated Bashir Gemayel days before his presidential inauguration. His supporters retaliated...
...make fun of the tourists buzzing around the John Harvard Statue, but with our digital cameras in grip, we’re hardly much better. If we want a true picture of what life is in 2006, we ought to take some photographs of the photographers...
...lead researcher of the NCI study says it would be premature to recommend changes in children's diets on the basis of these results, but I don't agree. Women who have a family history of breast cancer ought to be introducing their kids to soy foods as early as possible. Substituting soy milk for cow's milk is one way to start. I believe the same thing will be shown to hold true for boys; a similar diet may lower their future risk of prostate cancer...
...Israel. The finance portfolio is expected to go to economist Salam Fayyad, 54, educated in Texas, who earned the respect of international financial institutions during his previous tenure as finance minister between 2002 and 2006. Palestinians joke that with three "Americans" in the cabinet, the White House at last ought to be happy...
...more likely than ever to resurface in our later lives. The list of risky endeavors is a long one—experimenting with drugs, behaving promiscuously, writing inflammatory editorials, and so on. That said, one generally presumes that there is a short roster of activities in which one ought to be able to participate without fear of consequences. Academic inquiry belongs on that list, right? I thought so too. But as a number of academics are now learning, the U.S. government tends to disagree...