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...worldwide comment on the disappearance of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. from his father's Sourland Mountain home in Western New Jersey on the windy night of March 1. Last week the case passed into its third month with the child still missing, the abductors still uncaught. No national wave of kidnapping had followed. Children of the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney and Lady Willmott Lewis (daughter of President Frank Noyes of the Associated Press, wife of the London Times's Washington correspondent) had been reported threatened. But the Burns and Pinkerton detective agencies reported no increase...
...spices is another feature of the book. "We think of Indian cuisine as very hot," says Jackson, "but in fact it can be completely without 'heat' or chili." Not a book, in other words, for vindaloo fans - but an engaging read for anyone who wants to savor the new wave in Indian cuisine. Available from amazon.com for about...
...premature to declare any sort of “victory,” and the Bush administration has rightfully been wary of premature optimism. Middle Eastern regimes have a unique and regrettable talent for surviving in power, and it is not impossible that they will ride out this wave of popular discontent and mobilization. We do, however, think that those brave souls in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square are right when they chant that the “time is up” for unresponsive strongmen such as Bashar al-Assad...
...Beirut," in Middle East conversation, has long served as a synonym for civil chaos. But in recent weeks the mushrooming protest movement to eject Syrian troops from the country had begun to paint the Lebanese capital in a new light. Pundits wondered whether the protests presaged a wave of Eastern Europe-style pastel-shaded revolutions that would sweep aside Arab autocracy, and President Bush had warned the Syrians to leave in order that the "good democracy" of Lebanon could flourish unmolested. But a reality check came Tuesday in the form of a gigantic pro-Syria demonstration, which drew...
...anti-Syrian opposition is pressing for full withdrawal ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for May, and is using Syria's international isolation - and its failure to install a new regime of its own making in Beirut - to press the case. And their prospects have never been brighter, given the wave of international and domestic outrage that followed the Valentine's Day assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri...