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...Lebanese Civil War thanks to Israeli sponsorship. Nor should they blindly accept the Israeli army's pretexts for their incursion into Southern Lebanon, however much it may have played into the hands of this or that "Christian" mercenary warlord or ostensibly defended northern Galilee. Likewise, no Muslim should succumb to Hizbollah's rallying cries of retaliation and nihilistic hatred. To be sure, in desperate reaction to the Israeli occupation of the South and the major invasions of 1982 and 1996, a number of Lebanese Christians are starting to view Hizbollah as a respectable "resistance" force despite the patently callow...
...athletic icons of the ensuing century will to a large degree resemble those of today. Egregious jackasses whose laziness and sense of entitlement have caused them to lose their starting positions and who then succumb to unlimited sex, drugs and fried foods will remain ascendant, their posters plastered on the walls of boys' bedrooms across America. But it's pro wrestlers who will reign supreme, because they are the embodiment of sport as soap opera. With wrestling's incomparable melding of the trailer park and Valhalla, its intricate and interlacing narratives, its music, pyrotechnic stagecraft and glorification of oratory...
...that is quickly changing. A Centers for Disease Control study published in this week's journal of the National Cancer Institute found cigar smokers to be five times more likely than nonsmokers to die from lung cancer. Those who inhale their stogies are nearly eight times more likely to succumb to lung cancer than nonsmokers, while non-inhalers are three times as likely. The reason for the death rate among non-inhalers may come down to secondhand smoke - mostly from their own cigars...
There are a few reasons McCain got a pass, beyond his reputation for personal tolerance. Absent malice, gaydar seems relatively harmless. I consider my own gaydar benign, although wildly inaccurate and way too broad. (A man who doesn't succumb to my charms? Must be gay!) We've all guessed wrong, and not just about Rock Hudson. But could guessing be, as a gay friend put it last week, "a measure of how far we've come"? When I was growing up, who was or wasn't gay was a subject no one touched. I remember the bachelor real estate...
...chapter that has been largely forgotten. Kolata suggests that the lapse is due to the magnitude of the horror--in short, mass denial. Another diagnosis could be that the epidemic was conflated with the carnage of World War I, memories of which have also faded as its last survivors succumb to extreme...