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...imagined the spectacle as something like “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1835 tale of a husband in Salem who encounters a nocturnal meeting where “the smile of welcome gleamed darkly on every visage.” Among the clergy and sanctimonious elders he glimpses is his wife, she of the pink ribbons, ready for induction into the world of sin Goodman so fears. Afterward, Goodman becomes a silent, suspicious man, not trusting his wife, Faith...
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...will be a crisis manager, not a crisis resolver," says Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Endowment's Middle East Center in Beirut. Prior to his election as President, Suleiman was commander of the Lebanese army, an appointment he was accorded in 1998 under the auspices of Syria, which then dominated Lebanon. Since Syria disengaged from Lebanon in April 2005 following mass street protests, Suleiman has steered an even course amid feuding Lebanese factions. His priority has been to preserve the integrity of the Lebanese army, widely regarded as almost the only functioning state institution. Suleiman's profile rose considerably...
...President, Suleiman is expected to maintain the pliant role as a "cushion rather than a decisive player" to prevent the country from "exploding or falling apart," says Salem...
...reduced emissions. Global warming has become a new religion, with the Kyoto Protocol as one of its articles of faith. The idea that we can control a global climate governed by a billion factors by dickering with a couple of politically selected gases is carbon claptrap. Leon Wilbanks, Salem, Oregon...