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...particularly instructive Sesame Street episode, Bert and Ernie find themselves confronted with rain leaking through a hole in the roof. They lament that it is impossible to go out and fix the roof while it's still raining. Thus, they continue to get wet. When the weather finally clears, though, they decide not to bother fixing the roof, reasoning that you don't need a good roof as long as it's not raining...
Ostrovsky's most sensational claim is that in 1983 Mossad received specific intelligence, down to the make of a Mercedes truck outfitted to carry bombs, that Shi'ite extremists in Beirut were planning a major terrorist attack. Though the U.S. forces then stationed in Lebanon were an obvious target possibility, Mossad officials only warned the U.S. in the most general terms. The attack was carried out at Marine Corps headquarters and resulted in 241 American deaths. Writes Ostrovsky: "The problem was that if we had leaked information and it was traced back, our informant would have been killed. The next...
Israeli officials dispute many of the book's claims, with one top-level official in the Prime Minister's office claiming flatly that "95% of what he writes is not true." Ostrovsky was eventually fired from Mossad, though the circumstances remain unclear. A senior Israeli official said the ex-spy's motive in writing the book is to "get revenge." If so, Israel's legal intervention helped in that quest...
...church says it is making efforts to include sexual education in seminaries and to choose would-be priests more carefully. Many critics of church policy, though, believe the ultimate solution lies in making celibacy an option rather than a requirement. While agreeing that a pure life is possible, they argue that it is more likely to be achieved when celibacy is a choice, not a demand...
...Though the charges do not carry jail terms, she would be barred from holding public office for the next seven years if found guilty -- which is exactly what her opponents want. The most serious charge grows out of a Bhutto government decision last year to sell 287 acres of public land in the capital city of Islamabad to a London firm, Messers International Guarantee Trust Co. The government offered the land for $1 million, though its real market value was reputed to have been closer to 15 times that amount. The implication is that someone in authority stood to benefit...