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...party or perhaps to lure that special someone? Be careful – at 350 big ones a panel, the lights may end up costing you a pretty penny. And a final thought: when attempting to woo a member of the opposite sex with your swank new lights, refrain from setting them to a fast color pattern. Nothing like a migraine or a seizure to kill the mood...
...safely navigating this brutal process. When I looked into finding jobs in the media, the public sector or the arts, I was referred to standard booklets kept on file or to the resources of other centers altogether. When I asked about working abroad, I heard the all-too-common refrain of: “Well, it’s really hard without a work permit. Have you thought about working with a company with international offices?” This essentially means consulting firms, international banks or other sundry companies that remind me of the evil corporation in the recent...
...Israelites in their exodus from Egypt. Some Talmudic rabbis blame all the bad events in Jewish history--from the Golden Calf to the destruction of the Temple and the Diaspora--on the traces of those non-Israelites in Jewish society. Increasingly, the fringe of religious extremists, bound to refrain from killing Jews, justify the possibility of political violence by arguing that police and soldiers evacuating Jews from their land would be erev rav, enemies within who deserve to be destroyed...
...will craft a workable strategy to win the peace in Iraq. We hope that he will choose to take measures to protect the environment and reduce global warming, instead of paying lip service to the natural bounty he will leave to younger generations. And we hope he will refrain from appointing Supreme Court justices who represent the views of a small subset of conservative Americans. Not everyone who voted for George W. Bush agreed with every one of his policies, and since it was again an extremely close election Bush cannot claim an unambiguous mandate...
...will be inaugurated amid howling skepticism about U.S. motives in the world. "It's significantly worse than at any time I can remember," says former Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton, vice chairman of the independent 9/11 commission. "I talk to a lot of people from many countries, and the common refrain I hear is how low our standing is. That's going to be a major challenge to the next President." The failure to find WMD in Iraq dealt a devastating blow to the credibility of U.S. intelligence, compromising the U.S.'s ability to rally allies to confront Iran and North...