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Have in view a political map of the Middle East that is color-coded according to levels of democracy and autocracy. That tiny blue patch of Israel hemmed in by shades of purple will show that the war against the Jewish State is simultaneously a war against the only democracy in the Arab part of the region. Any criticism of Israeli democracy within the context of Middle East politics is subject to strict comparative standards, or else it is merely an excuse for delegitimating the Jewish people...
With a leading actor whose best days seem to be behind him and a plotline involving a doctor caring for terminally ill patients, Dragonfly may appear to be unfortunately reminiscent of 1998’s Patch Adams. At one point in the movie, a doctor is even shown wearing Patch-esque bunny ears complete with marshmallow nose for her young charges in a cancer ward. But the similarities end there; Dragonfly forgoes the feel-good sappiness of the Robin Williams film and falls short in its attempt to be another Sixth Sense...
...world, and he could win a gold medal in each of his sport's four Olympic events. At 19, he has the fresh-faced good looks of a boy-band member, a marketable name and a signature style--flowing hair beneath a red bandanna and a soul patch under his lower lip--that makes him instantly recognizable. Abandoned by his mother as an infant, reared in Seattle by an itinerant Japanese hair-stylist father, Ohno has also waged the personal struggle required by the modern, feel-good Olympics...
...Many people contacted us, and we helped them download the McAfee patch to get rid of the virus,” Sultan said...
...least blunted international criticism about the detainees' treatment at Camp X-Ray. "I would rather be in an 8-by-8 cell with a (tropical) breeze than to be locked down at Folsom Prison," Feinstein said after her own close-up look at conditions inside X-Ray, an arid patch beneath Guantanamo's hills where Haitian refugees were once held. Another Democratic Senator, Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, said the U.S.'s treatment of the detainees' was "not only humanitarian but (perhaps) overly...