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...look up at a picture of my friend and myself in front of the Western Wall, with the golden Dome of the Rock peaking out like a rising sun overhead. I wish for the pictures simplicity and truth amidst swirling clouds of misinformation and the vaporous stench of rhetoric...
...Traveling with Dick Cheney through the Middle East was like being in the eye of a hurricane: chaos loomed in the distance, but overhead the skies were clear. At least the Vice President and his aides kept insisting they were. Day after day, Cheney doggedly maintained that the explosion of Israeli-Palestinian violence wasn't interfering with the goal of his mission: persuading Arab allies that the next target in the war on terror should be Iraq. But like the rumble of far-off thunder, the evidence suggested otherwise. Everywhere he went--Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia--Cheney encountered...
...strong reason for that, analysts say, is Dell's ability to undercut the competition's prices without sacrificing profit. By making machines only after receiving an order, Dell can keep inventory low and turn it over quickly. That reduces overhead and the risk of getting caught with unsold, out-of-date models. Conventional manufacturers, including Legend, build machines according to forecasts of market demand. If predictions are wrong, a lot of unsold hard-ware can pile up in the supply chain...
Carmen, though sung in French (with English “supertitles” projected overhead in this production), is in many ways a quintessentially Spanish opera. The tale of the seductive, gypsy-girl Carmen, her hapless lover Jose, the bullfighter Escamillo and their love triangle is imbued with a richly Castilian flavor. But the Spanish component does not overwhelm the plot and only heightens, even justifies, the melodramatic exchanges between Carmen and her lovers...
...hamlet of 12 mud-walled homes in the shadow of a snowy ridge 80 miles southeast of Kabul. The women were gossiping and painting their hands red with henna. The men were in another room playing cards and dancing. Music drowned out the sounds of the U.S. warplanes overhead...