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...your baht mitzvah? What are your children's names? And this last time I flew: Are you a member of a congregation at home? I've learned to recognize these questions for what they are and to simply tell the questioner I'm not Jewish so that he can protest that it's not what he was getting at and then move on to why I booked an aisle seat. Once, when I was running late, I said that my son was named Yaakov, the Hebrew version of his name, Jacob, and I found myself whisked through in no time...
...Italy's cup" [July 17]: time was enthusiastic about the success and drama of the monthlong World Cup saga, and described in superlatives various aspects of the games and their positive effect on Germany in particular. As a TV viewer who witnessed most of the matches, let me protest that on the whole, the World Cup was one long soporific. In particular, the final stages (the knockout rounds) were unspectacular, with long periods of passing the ball back and forth. Unless FIFA takes action to improve the flow of the game - for instance, reducing the number of players to nine...
...long cylinder from three 44-gallon drums, then rigged up a nose cone from an old hopper. "They got an old car seat and put that in the drum, and then they went looking for an astronaut,'' Arneth recalls. A runty stockman was chosen and inserted, too drunk to protest, into the cramped cockpit. In case he got thirsty on the moon, the men hung a water bag beside the car seat. Then they put some gelignite under the rocket, ran a trail of petrol to it, counted down from 10 and dropped a lit match onto the "fuse...
...Election observers from the Carter Center are urging Congo's electoral commission to win back voters' confidence by making the count more transparent, cross-checking results with the results obtained by observers in polling stations and extending the time allowed for people to lodge an official protest after results are posted. Colin Stewart, co-director of the Carter Center's DRC field office told TIME that the "logistical mess up" will create dangerous ambiguities unless it is dealt with quickly...
...hasn't resonated much with Iraqis. Politicians, especially Shi'ite leaders with ties to Iran, have issued predictable broadsides against Israel; some, like the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, have blamed the U.S. too. He orchestrated a large pro-Hizballah demonstration in his Sadr City stronghold last week--a protest against the bombing in Lebanon but also a piece of political theater designed to showcase the strength of his support (and a response to a muscle-flexing rally organized earlier by a rival Shi'ite leader). For the most part, ordinary Iraqis, although sympathetic to their coreligionists in Lebanon, have...