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...Combating Revenge and Violence, is steering his SUV one-handed through Sanaa's traffic, while using his Nokia phone to negotiate a possible settlement to the conflict. By the time Marwani hangs up, he's brokered a shaky truce between the two main warring groups : a year-long cease-fire during which there'll be more talks...
Nostalgia is tricky for TV, which tends to render it as camp, sap or clichéd commentary. Mad Men could have been another index item in the boomer-centric '60s-history textbook that includes We Didn't Start the Fire and The Wonder Years. The New Frontier. The social upheaval. The same old times a-changin' again...
...While in Jerusalem, Obama will meet with top Israeli political and government leaders, and he will fly by helicopter to Sderot, the southern Israel town frequently bombarded by rockets fired from Gaza. Sderot is now deemed safe for Obama, with rocket fire having been sharply reduced by Hamas - which now controls Gaza - observing a truce with Israel...
When I worked as a reporter in besieged Sarajevo in 1994 and 1995, I sometimes fantasized (as many who experienced Serb shell and sniper fire did) about the eventual arrest of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. I imagined him in handcuffs, decked out in his camouflage military attire or in one of his trademark double-breasted suits, his silver plume of well-coiffed hair a reminder of the lifestyle he maintained even after he choked off water supplies to his former home city...
...side of the house. Someone installed a ceramic black jockey on the lawn. One night last week a gang of young whites began launching bottle rockets toward the Armstrong house, but suddenly the fun went out of it. A 23-year-old friend of the Armstrongs' fired a shotgun at the whites, wounding eight, none seriously. Police charged the alleged gunman, Michael Spraggins, with felonious assault and released him on $5,000 bond. Marlene Armstrong insisted that her family had been endangered. Said she: ''Either we were going to die or those people were going to die.'' Observers recalled other...