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...processes that are incredibly complex, Obama shows a remarkable grasp of the reality in which the world works. Reforms in education and energy won't happen overnight, and it's great to see a President who understands that getting things in motion is the first step. Shawna Browning, Angel Fire...
Within minutes, sirens began to wail as fire trucks, ambulances and police cars rushed to the scene. A U.S. Park Police helicopter hovered overhead to pluck survivors out of the water. Six were clinging to the plane's tail. Dangling a life preserver ring to them, the chopper began ferrying them to shore. One woman had injured her right arm, so Pilot Don Usher lowered the copter until its skids touched the water; his partner, Eugene Windsor, scooped her up in his arms. Then Priscilla Tirado, 23, grabbed the preserver, but as she was being helped...
...leaders of Israel and Hamas examined the fine points of an Egyptian cease-fire proposal, Israeli forces pushed hard into central Gaza Thursday, striking more than 70 "enemy targets," officials said. But a few Israeli artillery shells went amiss, crashing into the United Nations compound and a hospital inside the besieged Palestinian territory. Dozens more civilians were killed, according to Palestinian hospital staff...
...Meanwhile, as Hamas and Israel seemed to edge closer to accepting a cease-fire, Israeli forces subjected the enclave's main city of over 500,000 people to a relentless hammering. Israeli media reported that three top Hamas commanders - Said Siam, the Interior Minister; security chief Salah Abu Shrek; and Mahmoud Watfah, head of the military wing - were killed in an air strike inside Jabaliya refugee camp. Israeli military sources told TIME that Siam, a hard-liner ranked third within the political hierarchy, had been on the list of targeted Hamas leaders since the 20-day-old operation began. "Hamas...
...Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the U.N. Secretary-General that he "regretted" the shelling of the U.N. compound but added, "I don't know if you know, but Hamas attacked from within the UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency] compound during the humanitarian cease-fire." One U.N. official dismissed this claim as "nonsense," and spokesman Chris Gunness claimed that in a liaison meeting between U.N. and Israeli officials, "the military admitted that the firing did not originate inside the U.N. compound but several hundred meters away." He added, "This isn't the first time that the Israeli government...