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...Barack Obama for President in 2008” Facebook group already has over 9,000 members. All of this is pretty remarkable, considering that the man hasn’t even served two full years in the Senate and was a virtual unknown before he gave the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention...
...military attache in Tel-Aviv or by General Dayton, the security coordinator between Palestinians and Israelis. For Palestinians, this absence of a clearly identified U.S. authority is bewildering. Palestinian officials see no coordination between these different American entities; they are not even sure to which address to direct their concerns. Compared with the 1990s, when Washington seemed ready to manage Israeli-Palestinian relations down to the finest detail, the Palestinians today have reason to feel abandoned...
...form of identification. I gave him my Washington, D.C., drivers license, which he said he needed to keep at the checkpoint while I was inside. I was assured, however, that my I.D. would remain in a safe place, away from anyone who might be interested in learning my U.S. address so they could blow up my house. I thought of telling the sergeant that the address on the license was for an old apartment, which, last I heard, was being turned into luxury condominiums I couldn't afford. What did I care if some rich Washington developer lost a condo...
...Micromotives,” republished this year, is certainly a worthwhile read, it is rather limited in scope. Schelling—the former Littauer professor of political economy at the Kennedy School of Government—clearly explains many forms of collective behavior; however, because he does not directly address the social implications of that behavior, the book is not as interesting as it could have been...
...ElBaradei also warned that sanctions would be more likely to harden attitudes in Tehran than to change them, urging the West to pursue negotiations that address Iran's security concerns. Not even the Western powers pushing for sanctions believe they will change Iran's attitude. Indeed, U.S. officials stress that their diplomatic plan is to introduce very limited, largely symbolic sanctions at this stage in order to keep Russia and China "on board." Nor is it only commercial self-interest that makes China, Russia and many European countries loath to impose significant sanctions on one of the world's largest...