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...Middle East is never rule out Israel's readiness to turn the table over. But an Israeli hawk on Iran, with close ties to Israel's Ministry of Defense, told me to forget about it. "There's not a chance Israel will do anything. Maybe there's a window after the American elections and the new President but even that's doubtful. Washington does not have the stomach for another...
...Toyotas which make up the main transportation infrastructure of Yaoundé, a city of more than 1 million people. It cost Gwat another $50 to customize his vehicle: Its right and left side mirrors are painted with the words "Jesus" and "je t'aime" respectively, and across the rear window and fender is a proselytizing message to other drivers: "Time to Repent," and "Jesus Will Forgive." Gwat believes Jesus has helped him, too. Since he struck out on his own, his income has more than tripled, and on some days he can pull in about $20 - a relative fortune...
...first noticed the inscriptions during my sophomore fall, when I was on my way to what was to be a particularly uninspiring section for Ec 10. As I gazed out the window and absent-mindedly filled my notebook with supply and demand curves, I wondered whether it was part of former University President Charles W. Eliot’s (Class of 1853) plan when he thought of the inscriptions, that the gates would be locked at 7 P.M. every day, effectively hindering townies from growing in wisdom and freshmen from serving their country. I also wondered how much wisdom...
Yves Saint Laurent, considered the greatest French couturier of his generation, died in Paris on Sunday. He was 71. Saint Laurent, who retired from fashion in 2002 because, he said, it had been "reduced to mere window-dressing," was widely considered the father of democratized fashion and the designer most often associated with the feminist ideal of empowerment in the 1970s...
...someone like Bing, an elderly gentleman who used to cut lawns in my neck of Miami. Each year Bing would tell us what kind of hurricane season to expect. The key to his method was May: if it was a hot dry one, we'd better break out the window shutters; if it was cool and rainy, he'd tell us to relax. And he was usually right, especially in 2004 and 2005, when Florida got pummeled by enough hurricanes to blow Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall off Key Largo forever...