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...economic anxieties. Nightly news broadcasts that Iranians watch on their illegal satellite dishes show Hizballah doling out thick stacks of cash to displaced Shi'ites, courtesy of Iran. Because President Ahmadinejad enjoys pandering to public sentiment in the Arab world, the flow of Iranian resources to Lebanon is no secret. But this spending on a faraway Arab community infuriates Iranians and revives an ugly Persian chauvinism that considers Arabs uncultured and backward. One story I heard last week has the wife of Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah receiving a gift of Iranian caviar and thinking it was some sort...
BRIDGE TO KNOW WHERE Bloggers left and right dug up the identities of Senator(s) who put a "secret hold" on legislation to open up records on earmarks. One turns out to be Alaska Republican Ted Stevens, that tireless advocate for the Bridge to Nowhere. The Internet may not be, as Stevens delightfully put it earlier this year, a "series of tubes," but it happens to be an awesome tracking device...
...decision of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to press ahead with Iran's secret nuclear-weapons program confronted the U.S. with an agonizing strategic dilemma. Iran made no secret of the fact that it was supplying Hizballah with the missiles that rained down on Israel in the summer of 2006. Iran was also hell-bent on acquiring weapons of mass destruction. Yet the essentially unilateral action that had been used against Iraq in 2003 was no longer possible against Iran. A U.S. Administration that had once confidently bypassed the U.N. found it had no option but to turn...
...might want to stay on your best behavior even off the clock. Programs like Verified Person keep tabs on employees outside the office with ongoing background checks. Got busted for DUI last week? The boss will find out. And what you do on the Internet at home is no secret either. After Penelope Trunk won an award for writing about sex online, her blushing employer asked her to start using a pseudonym. At the travel sector of one corporation, a manager's spouse was surfing the Net and found a photo album with the company's name on a picture...
...that no one wants to address the dirty little secret about the war? Iraq and the rest of the world--especially the U.S.--would be much better off if Saddam Hussein had been left in power. The only thing that the Iraqi people have proved through this fiasco is that they deserve a tyrant. Your cover story "Life in Hell" made more sense than the Bush Administration's delusional claim of "Mission Accomplished." Larry Maysack Haymarket...