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...spear point” of the Palestinian struggle and that this would require changes in the rules of the “democratic game” to guarantee the “Jewishness” of the state. He also expressed support for a land swap that would strip Palestinians inside Israel of their citizenship because it makes “demographic sense...

Author: By Nimer Sultany | Title: U.S. Lessons for Israel’s Jim Crow | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...doesn't take a soothsayer to anticipate Biden goofs and Clinton glory. Still, if you strip away the flowery language of psychics and astrologers there's often a bedrock of solid advice. "Now is not a time to make decisions, but to explore options," Ashby tells me, as she pores over tarot cards in her Selfridges perch. With so many people having decisions made for them by macroeconomic forces, it's hard to disagree - and it's comforting to be confirmed in a course of nonaction. Now that's what I call retail therapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Anxious London Flocks to Psychics | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...include Hamas ministers. America should ignore them, just as we ignore the Hizballah ministers in the Lebanese government. But we should keep dealing with Abbas and the other non-Hamas types. This will do two things. First, it will allow commerce to start flowing into Gaza, since technically the strip won't be under Hamas' control. In practice, of course, Hamas will help decide how the money is spent. But lifting the Israeli blockade - along with doing more to stop the smuggling of rockets into Gaza and returning kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit - is crucial to getting a real, long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hamas: U.S. Diplomacy's Final Frontier | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...need the woman. Well, at least I got on. And I really also felt and still do feel that the guy comedians that I came up with, and boy did I come up with a great class - Jerry Seinfeld was the MC the night I auditioned at the Comic Strip along with Paul Reiser, whom I went to college with. Jerry introduced me to Jay Leno when I moved out to L.A., and we quickly became friends. I think of them all as big brothers to me to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Carol Leifer, Late Bloomer | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...meet David Letterman? I was performing at the Comic Strip in 1979, I think, and I came off stage, and the manager at the club said, You know, this guy named David Letterman just saw you. I was like, Wow! I was excited because he didn't even have his morning show yet, but we knew he was a great comic. But I got a call the next day from the talent coordinator of the Tonight Show who said, David Letterman said he saw you and that you might be a good candidate for the Tonight Show. I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Carol Leifer, Late Bloomer | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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