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...triumphant tone in the official media has encouraged moderate voices, previously silent on the conflict, to speak up. In a blog posting entitled "The British Marines and a Slippery Banana Peel," former vice-president Mohammed Ali Abtahi wrote that "it would be in Iran's interest to end this conflict as swiftly as possible through diplomacy." Although the marines are still formally in custody, Iranians are already weighing the long-term impact of the crisis. "One result might be that the U.S. gets the message that diplomacy is more effective than force," says Mohebbian. "If you can untie a knot...
...report concludes that while the long-term solution is to reduce the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, for now we're going to have to dig in and prepare, building better levees, moving to higher ground, abandoning vulnerable floodplains altogether. When former Vice President Al Gore made his triumphant return to Capitol Hill on March 21 to testify before Congress on climate change, he issued an uncompromising warning: "We do not have time to play around with this...
...recent poll by a local television station, he had a favorable rating of 3%. Given the poll's margin of error, it was possible Olmert had no support beyond his extended family. The Prime Minister responded to this dismaying turn of events--caused by Israel's less than triumphant war against Hizballah last summer, plus a gaudy array of scandals among his Cabinet ministers, plus the fact that he wasn't very popular to begin with--in a fairly straightforward fashion. "I know I'm unpopular," he told the nation mournfully in a recent speech...
...what stands in the way of blues’ triumphant return to the center stage? Is it our diminished attention spans? Our preconceptions about the form as the province of old, (mostly) black...
...label shame is pretty much gone from any mass-market brand that has smarts. Target has long proved adept at assembling a dream team of cohorts from various disciplines. "Sometimes it's just in and out for one season," says Sprenger, when asked about the store's less triumphant partnerships. Philippe Starck's line was something of a storm in a kooky teacup. In contrast, the architect Michael Graves signed on nine years ago and is still going strong. Next up from Mizrahi: a budget-priced bridal collection...