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...looks ahead to four more years of a U.S. President not given to taking outside counsel. "The Middle East is one issue on which the Europeans all agree," says François Heisbourg, director of the Paris-based Foundation for Strategic Research. "Even in Paris, it is clearly understood that the peace process can only move forward if America and Europe work together. If the Americans spurn this opportunity, it'll be 10 times worse than [the U.S. rejection of the Kyoto treaty] for America's image...
...Kerry, like many other Democrats, never truly understood this reality. He did not bother to visit the Southern Baptist Convention or any other fundamentalist group to say, Look, we're going to disagree on some issues, but there are lots of things we have in common, and I want to hear your point of view. He did not take a "listening tour" through rural Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi; he simply ignored the South. When Whoopi Goldberg lewdly compared the President to a body part in her southern hemisphere, Kerry-who was in the audience-came onstage and said entertainers like...
During overtime, Harvard moved to having three forwards in order to increase the pressure on the Lions because the team understood the significance of this matchup in the Ivy League picture...
...Doldrums. It shares with that troupe an affinity for presenting catchy melodies in bizarre ways, but the idea here is more fractured easy listening than campfire sing-along. The album is profoundly lo-fi, sometimes endearingly, sometimes gratingly; it comes across like something eavesdropped and only half-understood, with vocals, keyboards and feedback funneled through such a swampy mix that they often become indistinguishable. It’s in the spirit of ’60s and ’70s AM pop, at least outwardly, but chooses to disrupt any easy payoff with out-of-nowhere tempo swings...
...sentiment and action. The insistence that the two countries join at the hip benefits neither. The increasingly mobilized anti-Israel and anti-American movements are not responding to the same stimuli. As distinct countries with distinct histories and locations, Israel and the United States deserve to be analyzed and understood in their own contexts and for their own actions. Neither Israelis nor Americans, nor the Jews who inhabit those categories, benefit from erasing Jewish, Israeli or American specificity. Why lend ourselves to conspiracy theories if we aren’t even benefiting from their grain of misunderstood truth...