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...course, this wasn’t a flawless rainbow congregation. When we arrived in the jam-packed Hart Plaza amphitheatre, one man’s t-shirt caught my eye. “Come back to Detroit,” the shirt proclaimed, bold white letters crying out against a black backdrop. “We missed you the first time.” A menacing handgun illustration accompanied the aphorism...
...attempted bombing attacks in Jerusalem as well as a mortar attack on a Jewish settlement in Gaza. And Sunday's clashes at Jerusalem's holy sites - Israeli police entered the Muslim compound atop the Temple Mount after Palestinian youths threw stones down on Jewish worshippers gathered on the plaza below, at the Western Wall of Judaism's holiest temple - have added gasoline to the embers...
...carries quite as much symbolic power as Sunday's clashes in the Al Aqsa mosque compound atop Jerusalem's Temple Mount. For the Israelis, it was a simple case of sending police up to the Mosque compound to stop stones being rained down onto Jewish worshippers gathered on the plaza in front of the Western Wall of Judaism's holiest temple. Palestinians - and the wider Arab world - will cast the fracas as yet another Israeli assault on the sanctity of Islam's third-holiest site. And that's likely to ignite renewed anger both among ordinary Palestinians and particularly...
...billion water-treatment system that is still a blueprint and an air-cleanup program to purify an atmosphere so filled with soot that the skies periodically rain mud. Beijing has no history of building such facilities effectively. Its most high-profile construction project of the past decade, Oriental Plaza in the city center, was so rife with corruption that an investigation brought down Beijing's party chief and nearly the whole city leadership. The I.O.C., for its part, is still reeling from a vote-buying scandal connected with next year's Salt Lake City Games. "The Olympics are about construction...
...tried again Wednesday morning to suggest an early afternoon tea. She left a message saying she was going to lunch with my dad's wife and, anyway, she'd done tea at the Plaza before. "You just sit there in your office and write something funny," she said. You can skate the sarcasm line in a whole different way when...