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...even in Lebanon, Nasrallah isn't universally adored. Many Lebanese consider it a heroic but colossal blunder on Nasrallah's part to have provoked the Israelis by having his fighters stage a cross-border raid in July and kidnap two Israeli soldiers. War damage in Lebanon is assessed at $3.6 billion. More than 1,200 Lebanese died, and 3,700 were wounded. Another 974,184 were left homeless. Says parliamentarian Saad Hariri, son of the slain former Prime Minister: "When it starts raining and getting cold, people will realize what a huge mistake it was for Hizballah to start this...
...With Apologies to the Bees The graphics and all the descriptive information about the honeybee in "The Buzz on Bees" [Nov. 6] were truly magnificent. But there was an enormous blunder in the story's introductory sentence, "We don't give bees much thought unless they're terrorizing us at a picnic." Bees are not the least bit interested in picnickers or their food. Yellow jackets are the insects that take great delight in pirating our food even as it enters our mouths. It is disheartening to hear people all too frequently blaming the bee for the bothersome foraging...
...graphics and all the descriptive information about the honeybee in "The Buzz on Bees" [Nov. 6] were truly magnificent. But there was an enormous blunder in the story's introductory sentence, "We don't give bees much thought unless they're terrorizing us at a picnic." Bees are not the least bit interested in picnickers or their food. Yellow jackets are the insects that take great delight in pirating our food even as it enters our mouths. It is disheartening to hear people blaming the bee for the bothersome foraging of the yellow jacket...
...confronted the roots of its problem in Iraq so long as it avoids the culpability of Cheney, Condi Rice, and President Bush himself - not to mention Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and all those revisionist media pundits who want to blame Rumsfeld for a strategic blunder in which they all had a hand...
...Middle East and on the East Coast, the verdict was the same: University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71 committed a momentous PR blunder at her annual Halloween party last week when she agreed to have her picture taken alongside a senior with fake red explosives on his chest...