Word: explainers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...would Assad deliberately endanger his opportunity to reclaim the Golan Heights? Some try to explain away Assad's behavior on the grounds that he is an aging autocrat who does not comprehend Barak's political needs as a democratic leader. Assad should be granted more credit. For the past thirty years, the shrewd Syrian leader has defined himself as the Middle East's cold calculator par excellence, and there is no exception here. Assad is well aware of the fact that his actions hinder Barak's ability to muster Israeli public support in a future referendum. The Sphinx of Damascus...
...World levels. (Female life expectancy is more than 10 years longer.) Alcohol has killed millions; now an AIDS epidemic seems set to take its toll on both genders. Russia is also beset by other systemic diseases, foremost among them corruption. Few of Russia's 50 richest men could publicly explain how they moved from minor officials to billionaires in half a decade. Several have been investigated for crimes ranging from murder to embezzlement...
...been crisscrossing the nation in recent months to explain the merger to regional alumni groups...
...turned that pinkish color babies turn," she says. "He looked gray, and he would cry until he passed out." At first doctors thought David was colicky and that his crying spells would end. They didn't, and his doctors diagnosed asthma and severe allergies, but they still couldn't explain what was sending David to the emergency room. "We were in and out of the hospital, and we were losing him," says his 32-year-old mother from San Leandro, Calif. Then, around David's first birthday, she discovered the trigger for her son's attacks: household cleaners, items...
...entered the library together, but Navin had to stop and explain to the guard that he needed to bring the water in for medical reasons. When we had settled in front of a computer terminal, Sarah asked Navin why he took the water everywhere he went...