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...important post - Deputy Prime Minister - for Andrzej Lepper. Leader of the Self-Defense party, Lepper is a radical populist who has been convicted of assault (the conviction was erased when he entered parliament) and is under investigation for allegedly libelous attacks on his opponents. He made his name in violent street demonstrations in the mid-1990s and has blasted free-market reforms and E.U. membership for Poland. Only this month he was criticized for declaring that he had wanted to slap a television journalist during an interview. Even so, an official from the ruling center-right Law and Justice party...
...third possibility is that Hamas will be destroyed. By assuming power, Hamas now faces a moment of truth where it can choose between war and peace. It may enter a period of peaceful coexistence with Israel, embracing a two-state solution by abandoning its violent past, or it can choose war with the greatest military power in the region at the expense and betrayal of its people. Now that Hamas has assumed power in the Palestinian territories, if attacks on Israel continue, Israel may justifiably respond to such attacks for what they are, an aggressive assault on its people...
...simply means that as a woman, I have an admiration, respect, and love for women in general that comes from a sort of shared experience, an almost inherited knowledge and history that is the result of being female. I’m not a feminist because I have a violent aversion to all things masculine, nor because I feel the need to measure up to men. If feminism were about loathing men, then feminists would be called something else, something more like “Antimanists” or “Manhaters” or “Masculophobics...
...Street Fighting Man,” from “Beggars Banquet,” further elucidates this revolutionary theme. An answer to the Beatles’ “Revolution,”—which urged non-violent resistance—the Stones’ track exhorted the id-like primacy of “fighting in the street” with the refined sensitivity of the professional hooligan...
...Jamaica may be the worst offender, but much of the rest of the Caribbean also has a long history of intense homophobia. Islands like Barbados still criminalize homosexuality, and some seem to be following Jamaica's more violent example. Last week two CBS News producers, both Americans, were beaten with tire irons by a gay-bashing mob while vacationing on St. Martin. One of the victims, Ryan Smith, was airbused to a Miami hospital, where he remains in intensive care with a fractured skull...