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...escape decentralization. Take Chechnya. The only solution is autonomy for the regions. A unitary state with Moscow or St. Petersburg as its capital is utter nonsense. Your latest project is the study of prejudice. Why such an abstract idea? It's not abstract at all. Prejudice is the destructive root of most human conflicts. Conflicts can be sorted out at the conference table or tackled on the battlefield, but you cannot solve them as long as there's prejudice. The humiliation of the Palestinians is a case in point. What do you think of the Israeli leadership? Sharon...
...ordinary, boring and safe. But two years of violent intifadeh - bloody Israeli occupation of West Bank towns and frequent Palestinian suicide bombings, like the twin attacks in Tel Aviv that claimed 22 lives on Jan. 5 - have snapped Israelis back into the mixture of nationalism and fear at the root of Zionism. What used to be a minority view - the conviction that Israel's enemies mean to wipe it off the map and that to make peace is to invite extinction - is now mainstream thinking. It can be measured in the high level of response to call-ups for army...
Turnbull says he believes music is at the root of his students’ academic excellence and moral development...
...everything. The attacks on that day underscored how some nations had resisted the seductive call of peace, democracy and freedom--and that we had paid for the resistance. The Administration, says Mandelbaum, "has decided that the cause of Sept. 11 lies in the failure of our ideals to take root in the Arab world...
...trend has spread quickly from restaurant kitchens to amateur cooks, and local markets are now stocking such heirloom vegetables as swedes (a kind of turnip with a yellowish root and firm flesh), parsnips and turnip tops, and herbs like purslane and sorrel. The new favorite is the white-flowering ramson, also called broad-leaved garlic because of its pungent odor. Its sales are as robust as its flavor. "A few years ago we had a demand of a mere kilo a week," reports Abdessalem Najar, a vegetable and fruit vendor at Cologne's central market. "Now we sell three...