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Progress toward lasting peace may be similarly restrained by Abbas' weak position. He must wrestle with the new Hamas government, which was sworn in last week--by videophone because Israel refused to let Hamas officials travel between the West Bank and Gaza. Israel refuses to talk with Hamas until the militants disarm and abandon their vow to destroy Israel. And Hamas leaders are incensed by one facet of Olmert's plan: if Hamas refuses to accept Israel, the Israelis will draw up permanent borders unilaterally. "Why should we recognize Israel," asks Aziz Dweik, Hamas' new Palestinian Assembly Speaker, "when Israel...
...decadent couch-potato butts into shape, or at least to watch it happen to someone else. Nanny 911, Supernanny, The Biggest Loser, Celebrity Fit Club, Wife Swap, Cold Turkey--in all of them, someone comes in to impose "tough new rules" on participants who stand in for us in weak-willed lumpy America. Lose weight! Quit smoking! Be a better parent! Millions of Americans gladly, masochistically sit down to be lectured by their televisions about the very vices--gluttony, laziness, inattentiveness to loved ones--that they bought televisions to indulge. If there is one thing we love more than...
...problem with crying in public isn?t that it?s feminine or weak, it?s that weeping will never communicate as much as words. We tend to think of being caught crying in public as being exposed - a raw, unvarnished act. It is a way of being emotional, to be sure, yet crying can be a way of avoiding emotional complications; see Randy "Duke" Cunningham?s pre-indictment press conference, or Sen. Dick Durbin?s oddly excruciating apology for comparing Gitmo interrogators to the Nazis...
...place in the region than with freedom of expression. A growing sense of vulnerability is why many find it easy to ignore Ahmadinejad's fundamentalist outlook and provocative remarks and concentrate on his nationalist defiance. "I don't like this regime, but I don't think Iran should be weak either, or else we'll end up like Iraq," says Nazanin Arafin, 33, a teacher. "In the end, I'd rather be oppressed by an Iranian than a foreign occupier...
...effort to help plan happy hour, plant flowers in your courtyard, or start a foosball league. The onus falls upon the current generation of students to sustain old traditions and start new ones.Not To Do:1. Don’t hole up in your bedroom. Sleep is for the weak, and work can wait another day. The joy of a House stems from the fact that there is a community at your fingertips that is infinitely more valuable than a response paper. It’s not that solitude and self-reflection isn’t important–alone...