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...trying to show all foreigners and locals that we are a people that love life and liberty and are willing to live in peace with our neighbors, whether Jews or Muslims, and to show the other face of Palestine, that we are not terrorists," he says. "Some people want to interrupt my giving to my village," says the mayor. "I came after 30 years being in the U.S. in Boston. I left all the wealth. I left all the relaxing on the beaches and everything else and I came because I want to do something for Palestine, to invest...
...think that transparency helps intelligence agencies in the long run? Yes. The idea used to be that you don't want the public to know anything, so you don't tell them anything. What changed a generation ago is that the British people became less deferential, and if they're not given some idea of what's going on, they fall for conspiracy theorists. The best-selling book in the U.S. about British intelligence is, after all, Peter Wright's Spycatcher. A couple of the stories that he put in there that are complete nonsense are still widely believed: that...
...making the right decision. When the newcomer is David Cameron, the smoothly enigmatic leader of the Conservatives, a party once so damaged by a perceived lack of concern for Britain's most vulnerable people that its own chairwoman dubbed it the "Nasty Party," you can understand why voters want proof that the party has changed...
...Whatever you want, at whatever time. On my tab, as chief of state." - Offering to send reporters covering the massacre to Conakry nightclubs, in an apparent bid to win their favor (New York Times...
...Mitterrand became iconic of the élites defending [Polanski] by immediately thrusting himself to the heart of the controversy," says political commentator Alain Duhamel. "Some resent him as the living legacy of Mitterrand. The left is still furious at him for agreeing to serve under Sarkozy. Still others want to make him pay for his sophisticated and cultured persona, and colorful private life that he's intentionally used to provoke people with over the years." Mitterrand may yet save his job now that he has denied sex with minors and condemned the sexual tourism he has admitted to. However, serious...