The Guardian:
Be it giving them Viagra, putting them in a pageant or paying $14m for them, every culture has eccentricities about animalsCan a man kill a goat armed with little more than his eyes? Well, the US military seemed willing to believe in the possibility of such superhuman powers, as revealed in The Men Who Stare at Goats, Jon R (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Jim Hoagland (washingtonpost.com):
Few things are as dangerous in the Middle East as well-intentioned outsiders. They invariably bring unintended consequences upon those they would guide to a better life. Ask Job. Or consider the case of Mahmoud Abbas, whose hurt and fury over foreign meddling has triggered his threat to quit as Palestinian leader.
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www.guardian.co.uk:
The Cartoons that Shook the World, by Jytte Klausen (Yale, £20)In what deserves to become the definitive account of the Danish cartoon controversy of 2005-6, none of the major actors comes out looking too good. Certainly not the editor of the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, taking deliberate aim at the "sickly oversensitivity" o (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Once a place to escape to, the suburbs became a byword for conservatism. Owen Hatherley on a surprising exhibition at the London Transport MuseumA couple of years ago, I temporarily moved out of south-east London, where I have lived for 10 years, into a strange, exotic land. Flat-sitting in East Finchley might not sound ful (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Real Estate:
BOUNDARIES: Logan Circle is in the Northwest quadrant of D.C., sandwiched between Dupont Circle and Shaw. It is bounded on the west by the middle of 16th Street, on the east by 10th Street, on the south by M Street and on the north, roughly, by S Street.
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The Guardian:
Digital economy bill proposals receive welcome from music and film, but anger from ISPs and privacy campaignersThe government's planned crackdown on unlawful online filesharing has been attacked by privacy campaigners and internet service providers but welcomed by executives and artists in the music business.Earlier today, (Read More)
Huffington Post:
George Mitchell's job as Middle East Special Envoy has got to be terribly frustrating for a man whose life story has been one success after another.But the Israel-Palestine conflict tends to be a career destroyer. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was the most popular political figure in the United States when he went (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
C4's Dispatches has been branded 'antisemitic', but surely Britain's Jewish community can cope with reasoned scrutiny?The serious charges levelled by critics at the Dispatches documentary investigating the UK pro-Israel lobby amount to accusations of gross irresponsibility, or worse. But who is being irresponsible here? Tho (Read More)
The Guardian:
David Cesarani (A frisson of conspiracy, 18 November), is absolutely right that our investigation for Channel 4, Inside Britain's Israel Lobby, was followed by a deluge of pretty horrible antisemitic comment on a range of websites. Nasty, but predictable. In fact, exactly the same reaction we got in response to our previous (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
In the space of a few minutes in Brussels , Cathy Ashton found herself catapulted into the international limelight as one of the world's most powerful women.It is a quite spectacular rise by any standards.Thirteen months ago she was a junior member of the British cabinet, the leader of the House of Lords, pushing through go (Read More)
The Guardian:
Who do you call when you want to call Europe? After five years of wrangling designed to deal with the Henry Kissinger question, the EU last night failed to provide a satisfactory answer. The first ever president of the European council is to be the haiku-writing Belgian prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy, who is still little (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
• Brown seals deal to give Ashton foreign portfolio• Blair's fears realised as Van Rompuy lands top jobWith its nondescript glass front, decorated with the red and white of the national flag, the Austrian mission to the European Union looks like just another unremarkable diplomatic building in Brussels.But this afternoon a (Read More)
MSNBC:
The United States and five other world powers will meet Friday in Brussels to discuss what measures can be taken to punish Tehran for its refusal to halt its nuclear enrichment program.
Iran - United States - Tehran - Middle East - Nuclear. (Read More)
www.msnbc.msn.com:
A famous Lebanese pop singer, known for her seductive dresses and provocative dancing, is now accused of singing a song with racist lyrics that compares black Egyptians to monkeys.
Singer - Middle East - Lyrics - Music - Arts. (Read More)