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...KANYE WEST says he wants to pose naked...
...engaging in street fighting with Palestinian militants. The offensive, which has claimed the lives of more than 950 Palestinians and 13 Israelis so far, has hardened attitudes on both sides: numerous civilian deaths have led to an outpouring of support for Hamas among Palestinians in the Fatah-controlled West Bank, while Israelis have united behind their military's efforts...
...narrated in the first-person voice of a pathologically shallow socialite called Butterfly, in the Friday Times of Lahore since the early 1990s. In her second book, The Diary of a Social Butterfly (the first, 2006's The End of Innocence, was a coming-of-age story set in West Punjab during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971), she has culled columns spanning January 2001 to January 2008. The pieces are bookended by the flexing of Taliban muscles in Afghanistan and the assassination of Benazir Bhutto - and they constitute a hilarious social commentary...
We’ve been going about this all wrong. As I perused the paper after reveille last Friday, I couldn’t help but feel a mite more morose than usual, a dose more dolorous. Nine AIDS activists in Dakar, in the supposed shining citadel of West African democracy, had been sentenced to eight years imprisonment upon suspicion of homosexual conduct. Even more shocking was the well-worn statement issued by the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW): merely, that the Senegalese state had violated Article 7 of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, and that the doctrine...
...While critics have charged that Israel continues to instigate the admittedly tragic violence in the region, they ignore the numerous efforts that the Israeli government has made to end the conflict. In the past decade, Israel has offered to withdraw from 97 percent of the West Bank, and has also unilaterally removed its forces from the Gaza Strip. But apparently even these well-intentioned efforts are not enough for the radical Hamas leadership, which has repeatedly refused to recognize Israel as a state and has called for its complete destruction. As Israel is—understandably—not going...