The Wars of Perception
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/opinion/28johnson.html?pagewanted=all
By DOMINIC JOHNSON and DOMINIC TIERNEY
What happened in Tet and Somalia may hold important lessons for Iraq.
Ecuador Vote: Leader Forges Middle Road Among Leftists
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/world/americas/28ecuador.html?ref=world
By SIMON ROMERO
Rafael Correa's rise in Ecuador points to how varied, and persistent,
the leftist groundswell has become in Latin America.
Allure of Islam Signals a Shift Within Turkey
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/world/europe/28turkey.html?ref=world&pagewanted=all
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
Turkey is navigating between the forces pulling it closer to Islam and
the institutions that safeguard its secularism.
Bush Asking Arab Friends for Iraq Help
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/world/middleeast/28diplo.html?ref=world
By HELENE COOPER
President Bush and his top diplomats seem intent on talking only to
Arab friends, shutting the door to Iran and Syria.
Wal-Mart's Superstores Gain Entry Into India
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/business/worldbusiness/28walmart.html?ref=asia
By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS and SARITHA RAI
Together with a leading Indian cellphone operator, Wal-Mart will open
hundreds of branded superstores across India over the next five years.
Where the Appetite for Aircraft Is Big
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/business/worldbusiness/28asiaplanes.html?ref=asia&pagewanted=all
By WAYNE ARNOLD
Asian countries are clamoring for planes to meet surging air travel
demands, giving Boeing an edge in the region.
Pastor Chosen to Lead Christian Coalition Steps Down in Dispute Over
Agenda
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/us/28pastor.html?ref=us
By NEELA BANERJEE
The Rev. Joel C. Hunter said the Christian Coalition of America
resisted his efforts to broaden its agenda to include reducing poverty
and fighting global warming.
A New House Democrat With an Insiders' View of Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/us/politics/28carney.html?ref=politics&pagewanted=all
By JAMES RISEN
The sudden rise of Chris Carney, a pre-Iraq war Pentagon intelligence
analyst turned newly elected Democratic congressman, has a remarkable
quality about it.
Doing the Primary Shuffle
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/us/politics/28pintro.html?ref=politics
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
The Democratic Party's decision to shuffle its presidential primary
schedule is forcing contenders to extend themselves in more states.
Hezbollah Said to Help Shiite Army in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/world/middleeast/28military.html?ref=washington
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and DEXTER FILKINS
Between 1,000 and 2,000 fighters from the Mahdi Army and other Shiite
militias have been trained by Hezbollah in Lebanon, a senior U.S.
official said.
Marine Life Leaped From Simple to Complex After Greatest Mass
Extinction
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/science/28mari.html?ref=science
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
New research suggests that the "great dying" 251 million years ago
was followed by an explosion of complexity in marine life that has
persisted ever since.
Can the GOP Find Its Center?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/27/AR2006112701022.html
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006; Page A19
"The center does not try to read anybody out of the party," the
experienced Republican politician declared. "But the farther you go in
either direction, the greater the inclination to read others out." He
deplored party purges as "political cannibalism" and insisted: "The
center must lead."
That was Richard M. Nixon, about a week after Barry Goldwater's
landslide defeat at the hands of Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
Hateful Words -- and Signs of Hope
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/27/AR2006112701021.html
By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, November 28, 2006; Page A19
I'd like to say a good word about Michael Richards. And before you jump
to any conclusions, Mel Gibson, too. As long as I'm at it, why not
throw in Sen. George Allen? I'm sure I've overlooked others who have
recently waxed bigotedly, but these three will do. This is what I have
to say: Thank you.
I say this not because I approve of what they've said but because their
remarks have been so roundly condemned that I can see the responses
only as signs of remarkable progress. This is particularly the case
since the statements exist solely in the ether, largely disconnected
from the actual harmful deeds that have often followed such words. In
these cases, we have moved past ugly behavior to ugly words. We
consider them deed enough.
At National Airport, Prayers Against Profiling
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/27/AR2006112701184.html
Religious Leaders Protest Detention of Six Imams
By Leslie Miller
Associated Press
Tuesday, November 28, 2006; Page A10
Imams, ministers and a rabbi staged a pray-in yesterday at Reagan
National Airport and demanded an apology from US Airways for barring
six Muslim clerics from a Minneapolis-to-Phoenix flight last week.
The religious leaders called for an end to racial profiling, saying it
was unacceptable in the United States.
Ad Blitz Satirizes Lebanon's Divides
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/27/AR2006112701456_pf.html
Provocative Signs Target Pervasive Sectarianism
By Anthony Shadid
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, November 28, 2006; A12
BEIRUT, Nov. 27 -- The evening was tense, as most are these days in
Beirut, its Maronite Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Sunni and Shiite
Muslims and Druze perched imprecisely between war and peace. Malak
Beydoun, a young woman, pulled her car into a parking lot in the
Christian neighborhood of Ashrafiyeh. She peered at a billboard
overhead, alarmed and then indignant.
"Parking for Maronites only," it read.
Stringing a sentence together
Robert Fox
November 28, 2006 11:05 AM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/robert_fox/2006/11/post_710.html
Speaking to a gathering of academics, hacks, worthies and bystanders
about British strategy for Iraq (if that isn't the ultimate oxymoron),
the defence secretary, Des Browne, was asked about the likely execution
of Saddam Hussein and what that might mean in terms of justice, and
future disorder. Though he didn't intend it, it was the most
interesting reply the former human rights lawyer gave all morning.
"I am against the death penalty in principle," he said, "anyone who
knows my politics knows where I stand on this. But what happens to
Saddam will depend on the justice system of Iraq." The reply was a
mixture of principle, crude politics, and sheer expediency - and in the
wrong order. Which I suppose is characteristic of a government that
can't make up its mind about what in its lucky dip view of
international law can give the slightest smidgen of justification to
its assault on Iraq in March 2003.
Tamil Tiger rebel leader calls truce 'defunct'
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-tamils28nov28,1,2127355.story?coll=la-headlines-world
The head of the separatist group in Sri Lanka says the government talks
peace while waging war.
By Henry Chu, Times Staff Writer
November 28, 2006
NEW DELHI - The leader of the Tamil Tigers rebel group blamed the Sri
Lankan government Monday for rendering a 4-year-old cease-fire
"defunct" and said his organization had no choice but to press for an
independent homeland for the island nation's minority Tamils.
In his yearly speech, Velupillai Prabhakaran, head of the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam, lambasted Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse
as a chauvinistic hawk bent on subduing his group militarily while
pretending to talk peace.
LTTE
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"Velupillai Prabhakaran" OR "Velupillai Pirabaharan"
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Vaiko OR MDMK
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"Mahinda Rajapaksa" OR "Mahinda Rajapakse"
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