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...Gaza. Olmert's comments reflect a profound shift toward realism among Israeli rightists, akin to what Palestinian and Arab nationalists started going through three decades ago, when Israel was in the prime of its strategic strength. The shift is evident not only in Olmert's prescription for a peace settlement, but also in his severe critique of a righteous Israeli mind-set that has turned out to be self-destructive...
...issue of abortion is an emotive subject, and Google does not take a particular side.' GOOGLE, in a statement explaining its new policy as part of an out-of-court settlement with a British Christian organization...
...Doueh. According to documents about the album, Bishop heard a sample of the band’s innovative guitar arrangements on Moroccan radio. Leads from cassette dealers identified the music as Sahwari from the Western Sahara and Mayet eventually journeyed to Daklha, the Western Sahara’s last settlement, where he tracked down and recorded the music of Baamar Salmou. Doueh, as Salmou is known, had apparently refused recording contracts with major labels in Africa and Europe. The result of those recordings is nothing short of remarkable. Each song reverberates with a deeply rooted local color and ethnic identity...
...that could yet redraw Britain's political landscape. Brown was regarded as a skillful and successful Finance Minister in the Blair years, when he positioned Labour as a champion of free markets. In Manchester he took a new tack. "The continuing market turbulence shows why we need a new settlement for our times," he said, announcing proposals to "rebuild the world financial system." That's a massive ambition for a man struggling to control his own party, but the U.S. pollster Stan Greenberg, in Manchester on a brief break from advising Barack Obama's campaign, believes it offers Brown...
...bombs can change the course of history. Many believe that the IRA's 1993 truck bomb attack in in Bishopsgate, the center of London's financial district, helped convince Britain to seek a political settlement with the IRA. In 2005, a former Lebanese prime minister in 2005 was killed by a car bomb that provoked a cascade of events that led to Hizballah becoming the de facto sovereign authority in Lebanon. Or, on a happier side, the sharp drop off in car-bombs in Iraq has averted a civil war. And the Oklahoma City truck bombing effectively destroyed the right...