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...company created a TV commercial featuring a man dashing to get ready for work; when he kisses his partner on the way out - to the tune of Tammy Wynette's Stand by Your Man - it becomes clear that his partner too is male. A veteran clean-up-TV activist panned the clip, and the ad was never aired. While tolerance for gays and lesbians seems to have increased since then, Britain's asa received dozens of complaints - deemed not worthy of an official probe by the watchdog - about a female-on-female kiss in a recent British...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak tried but failed to win freedom for Israel's three missing soldiers, whose capture by Hamas and Hizballah triggered Israel's attacks in the Gaza Strip and then Lebanon. A veteran mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict, Mubarak had advice for all the parties in written answers to questions from TIME's Cairo bureau chief, Scott MacLeod. (Longer excerpts appear in time.com...
...committee member, Nancy Walser, has said she will support Fowler-Finn’s candidacy, while veteran committee members Alfred Fantini and Joseph G. Grassi have proposed a compromise one-year contract extension...
...cautious leaders may have overreached. Some Lebanese political insiders speculate that either the group misjudged the probable Israeli response or Iran or Syria ordered Hizballah to deliberately provoke Israel. "They are a tool in the hands of the Syrian regime and for Iran's regional ambitions," says Walid Jumblatt, veteran leader of Lebanon's Druze community. Iran created Hizballah in 1982 in response to Israel's invasion of Lebanon that year. A Lebanese official told TIME that Iran recently doubled its cash infusions to Hizballah, to about $300 million a year...
...they make are an attempt to salvage a war whose coherence crumbled soon after Saddam's statue fell. However, while they offer the credibility of an unvarnished image, they lack any meaningful context of what came before and after the clip, or what's happening outside the frame. One veteran described them to the Wall Street Journal as "kind of like the ESPN highlight reels - the music is pumping and everyone was running around." Another soldier told the Los Angeles Times, "If I had a copy of it, and MTV called, I'd sell...