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...tentative plans to adapt the building for use by Lesley involve lowering the structure to ground level, removing the steeple, and transporting it to the opposite side of the lot on which it currently stands...
...worth noting, of course, that even had the more dovish Livni been in charge, peace with the Palestinians would not be achieved anytime soon. That's because political divisions on the Palestinian and Arab side are an even bigger mess than the hawkish Netanyahu's hodgepodge coalition of ultranationalist hard-liners like Lieberman and longtime peace negotiators like his Defense Minister, Labor Party leader Barak...
...there are big issues here, issues of economy and simple justice, especially on the sentencing side. As Webb pointed out in a cover story in Parade magazine, the U.S. is, by far, the most "criminal" country in the world, with 5% of the world's population and 25% of its prisoners. We spend $68 billion per year on corrections, and one-third of those being corrected are serving time for nonviolent drug crimes. We spend about $150 billion on policing and courts, and 47.5% of all drug arrests are marijuana-related. That is an awful lot of money, most...
...element in President Barack Obama's Afghanistan strategy is getting Pakistan to fight the Taliban on its side of the border. But despite the Administration's demanding a more concerted effort against militants on Pakistani soil as a condition for further aid to Pakistan's military - and warnings by Centcom commander General David Petraeus and others that the Taliban threatens to destroy Pakistan as a state - many in Washington and beyond are skeptical that Pakistan will cooperate...
...OECD, was stalling because of its concern that such a list might include Macau and Hong Kong, which have both recently moved to implement OECD standards. The U.S. President took Sarkozy aside, then Chinese President Hu Jintao, and finally brought them together in a private meeting at the side of the room. "If he hadn't done that, we'd still be there," remarked a White House official after the communiqué had been safely published. (See pictures of Obama in Europe...