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...Twenty feet away Fatah member Sumren Mohamed was handing out leaflets urging people to back the ruling party. "We will not make the same mistakes of the past," he said, when I mention that many Palestinians seem tired of corruption. "We are the party that will raise the flag of Palestine in this place again." Was he happy that Hamas activists were staying away from some East Jerusalem polling stations to avoid trouble with Israeli security forces? "Every organization should be here of course," he said quickly. "We are a democratic people. I don't think in your country that...
...almost 40 years, the aircraft carrier Clemenceau plied the world's seas as the flag bearer of the French navy, deploying off troubled coasts from Djibouti in 1974 to Yugoslavia in 1993. Last week the decommissioned 26,000-ton giant - stripped of guns and under an assumed name - was stalled on what the French had hoped would be its last journey, bound for the world's biggest shipbreaking yards on the beaches of Alang in western India. The ship, which is riddled with potentially toxic asbestos and has already been rejected by Greece and Turkey, made no headway for several...
Most shows in their fifth season have begun to flag in the ratings, and nearly every hit reality show has faltered this season. But American Idol pulled 35.5 million viewers, its biggest debut ever. What's more interesting than how much the audience has grown is where it has grown. As the show has aged, the audition episodes--weeks of oddballs, naïfs and some of the worst singers God ever cursed with larynges--have become the most popular...
...soldier quickly removed that flag - but the military has not always been so responsive to local sentiments in Iraq. I have witnessed scores of instances of American soldiers behaving badly toward Iraqis. But, I've also seen British soldiers doing the exact same thing...
...G.O.P.'s preprimary endorsement of Schwarzenegger. Those activists have collected more than 10,000 signatures on an online petition urging The Passion of the Christ director Mel Gibson, a conservative Catholic, to run against Schwarzenegger for Governor. "His reaction to the special election was to raise a white flag in surrender to the liberals," complains Mike Spence, who heads the assembly. "Schwarzenegger's going to have to give conservatives a reason to vote for him. Otherwise, we won't vote...