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Ahmadinejad is softening his tone when he says that Iran would not stand in the way if Palestinians opted for the two-state solution, establishing their own state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and relinquishing claims to territory that constitutes the state of Israel. Still, Parsi says, this simply echoes the view expressed by Ahmadinejad's predecessors, including former President Mohammed Khatami. "For Ahmadinejad, this is a rather halfhearted shift, but it is important nonetheless," Parsi says. (See pictures of Scott MacLeod's interview with Ahmadinejad...
...Regularly lampooned by the country's most popular syndicated cartoon strip, Da Zuma Code, which depicts him as a ruthless buffoon. In 2007, he filed more than a dozen lawsuits against various media outlets and figures, including cartoonist Jonathan "Zapiro" Shapiro, who once depicted Zuma preparing to rape the justice system in the form of a blindfolded woman pinned down by his political allies in the ANC, the Communist Party and the ANC Youth League...
...city of 1.5 million, a sprawl of strip malls and cinder-block and tin-roofed buildings just south of San Diego, is fighting back. Last month, the city's tourism office launched a new 120th anniversary tourism campaign: "120 Things To Do in Tijuana." (See pictures of fighting crime in Mexico City...
...onto the last splinter of coast held by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, moving the Tigers' 33-year separatist struggle into its likely endgame. Despite being outnumbered nearly 100 to 1, the approximately 500 remaining Tigers have refused to surrender, clinging to their last 5-mile-long strip of territory. The army's advance has allowed more than 90,000 ethnic Tamil civilians trapped between the two sides to flee the fighting, although thousands more still remain. "We're seeing the final stage of this war, with the government determined to wipe out the Tigers' control...
...Searching a backpack is dramatically different than asking a student to take their clothes off.' GRAHAM BOYD, ACLU lawyer, on the Supreme Court case about the 2003 strip-search of Savana Reding, then 13, by school officials looking for prescription ibuprofen...