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...couple of days throughout the holiday, we saw the sign on the menorah was ripped. We said, ‘Let’s hope it was the weather.’” But he said the demolition of the menorah proved that the damage was indeed intentional...
...entire menorah was basically destroyed—one of the arms was broken off, six of the bulbs had been destroyed,” said Joel B. Pollak, a student at Harvard Law School. “When I looked more closely, I saw the electrical wires had been cut.” Pollak said he discovered the damage while walking by the park on Friday just past noon. He wrote about the incident on his blog later that...
...their own: "Considering that most Muppets start out as bath mats with appliqués, it's fairly miraculous that they seem to have more dimensionality to their personalities than do most human characters on television ... [Henson] understood that viewers would suspend their sense of disbelief if they saw pieces of themselves in the characters. Forgetful Jones had a foible, and he was therefore funny and as recognizable as the elderly neighbor who always seemed surprised when the paper boy came to collect on Fridays. The Count had an obsessive need, and who doesn't? Telly fretted, Oscar kvetched, Ernie...
...hand, it wanted to destroy the Hamas government; on the other hand, it sought to coexist with the movement in order to ensure security along Israel's southern flank - hence the combination of "calm for calm" and the unrelenting economic siege. But even "calm for calm" represented what Israel saw as an unacceptable humiliation, as Hamas continued to hold the kidnapped Corporal Gilad Shalit as a hostage - for more than two years now - to secure the release of Palestinian prisoners...
...ensuing weeks saw skirmishes between the two countries as the disputed territory of Kashmir came front and center in the battle to prevent militants from infiltrating the now hyper-vigilant India. Qureshi's response was sympathetic to an India eager to see justice brought to the attacks' perpetrators, but came with a no-nonsense warning: "We do not want to impose war, but we are fully prepared in case war is imposed on us." On Dec. 26, he again warned his neighbor country against "the mistake of surgical strikes," while calling back troops on leave and placing all military personnel...