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...overpowering," says François Heisbourg, a security expert who was a chief adviser to the Defense Minister at the time. "I hope the government doesn't put our troops in harm's way without a clear commitment that Hizballah is disarmed." The French position underlines an obvious truth: like most diplomatic compromises, Security Council Resolution 1701 is a necessarily ambiguous document. It was agreed only with the approval of the Israeli and Lebanese governments, and the U.N. force serves at the invitation of the Lebanese government, a coalition of which Hizballah is a part. The international mission falls largely...
...when her improbable quest for the Philippine presidency began. Her voice was calm and steady as she recited the presidential oath, her hand resting on a leather-bound Bible. "I am taking power in the name of the Filipino people," she declared. "I pledge a government dedicated to upholding truth and justice, morality and decency, freedom and democracy." Less than 12 hours later her predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos, and his family climbed aboard four U.S. Air Force helicopters, bound for exile after more than 20 years of increasingly authoritarian rule. Aquino went on national television to assure the country that...
...been a long career for the polished Wilson, whose first albums appeared in the 1960s, and she faces that truth head-on in such numbers as These Golden Years and I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up. Shorter breathed these days, she can still summon a warm, rich sound and vividly tell a song's story. With a big band behind her in Taking a Chance on Love, she also shows there's plenty of fire in her autumnal mood...
...verbose resume aspiring grade-school teacher John Mark Karr posted on the recruiting website Job 4 Teacher.com omits any mention of his obsession with molested and murdered girls. But if that document even approximates the truth, the current prime suspect in the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey had hopped between enough jobs and countries over the past decade - glorified nanny in the Netherlands, homeroom instructor in Honduras, to name but two - to raise a bouquet of red flags in any principal's mind...
...meet a guy, and you take his phone number and he takes yours, and three days later he hasn't called, the truth of the matter is he probably wasn't interested in you in the first place, or he's not going to call you. So what good is it having his number? The problem is, you have a couple of glasses of wine with your friends on day three, and you find yourself calling him. You're a little unruly, and you're having a little too much fun, and then you wake up the next morning...