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...unable to ease the plight of the Palestinians, and Hizballah may be helping its main sponsor, Iran, burnish its claims to be standing up to Israel and the U.S. on behalf of the whole region. The movement gained a kind of pan-Arab hero status in 2000, when Israel quit Lebanon and Hizballah was acclaimed as the only Arab army ever to have forced an Israeli retreat. It had become a role model and tutor to Palestinian radical groups such as Hamas, which sought to emulate not only Hizballah's art of combining welfare work, politics and military activities...
...Chappelle Returns His "lost episodes" air at last Dave Chappelle abruptly quit his wild--and wildly popular--comedy show in April '05 but had filmed enough for Comedy Central to cobble together three new episodes--without his blessing. They start airing this week...
Could Tom DeLay be headed back to the House? A source close to the ex-Congressman tells TIME that DeLay is planning an aggressive campaign to retake the House seat he quit in June if an appeals court lets stand a ruling by a federal judge last week that his name must stay on November's ballot--even though he has moved to Virginia. "If it isn't overturned, Katy bar the door!" says a G.O.P. official. "Guess he'll have to fire up the engines on the campaign and let 'er rip." DeLay, awaiting trial for money laundering, never...
...leave for a new job as head of global security for Bank of America, where he will earn a reported $600,000, more than triple what he makes as the FBI's No. 3. Better pay isn't the only motivation--one former senior FBI manager says he quit after tiring of the "constant berating" he got from lawmakers when briefing Congress. "All these factors play into a decision to leave: family, finances, burnout, pressure, criticism," he says. "You've worked your a__ off. Eventually you say, Hey, the heck with this...
...already saying they won't support him if Lamont is the Democratic nominee. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, for example, have both endorsed Lieberman in the race, but said they will back whoever wins in the Democratic primary. Some Lieberman supporters have told the Senator he should simply quit the primary, but he is unwilling to concede it so early, because he wants badly to win as a Democrat...