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...Pour a liquid out of the container and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space it may surprise you where they go, the shape they'll take. Surprise is the one thing you can't have planned for. The word is borrowed from French, literally to take over. It suggests an ambush, a conquering, even a trap...
...parents we pay so much attention to their schools, their scores, their teachers. How is it that two months of play seems to shape their character and reflexes more than a whole winter's worth of lessons? When they are melted in the high heat of summer freedom, they find out just how flexible they can be, how bold, how resourceful; so that when the air cools and school resumes they swagger back into their orderly lines, with a secret, and another mark on the wall...
...essence, though the Lebanese Army is envisaged as the foundation of the long-term solution, it has remained remarkably silent during the three-week war on what is, legally at least, its own territory. And the reasons for its passivity may hold important clues to the final shape of a peace agreement...
...solution. The Lebanese government, crucially including Hizballah Cabinet ministers, thought it might have found one and started pressing it upon U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She declared it had some "very good elements," an intriguing glimmer that a fix for the region's immediate agony might be taking shape, though she shied away from others. But even if this crisis abates soon, the knotty problem of defanging Hizballah will remain...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is confident that both a cease-fire and a lasting settlement that prevents a resumption of fighting in Lebanon can be achieved this week. But events on the battlefield may be diminishing Washington's ability to shape the terms of the truce that will emerge - whether this week or at some point in the future...