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By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent
The government and settler organizations are working to surround the Old City of Jerusalem with nine national parks, pathways and sites, drastically altering the status quo in the city. The secret plan was assigned to the Jerusalem Development Authority [...]

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Melik Kaylan, 03.10.09, 06:00 AM EDT
Elegant warlords, icy brunettes and a yearning for democracy.
BEIRUT–You could argue that, in a contest to choose the most civilized citizens of the world, it would be a travesty not to choose Beirutis. Multi-domiciled (New York, London, Paris, Beirut), automatically [...]

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A very popular slogan in the USA just before the historic elections was the following: “Rosa Parks sat, so Martin Luther King could walk, so Barack Obama could run, so we could fly.” That saying describes as few the history of the civil rights movement in [...]

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Just before Christmas I went to Pune, a large University city in the state of Maharashtra, India. On my last day I went out with some colleagues to see a little of the surrounding town, villages and hills. I was sightseeing, looking for key Indian [...]

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Here, at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where Martin Luther King has been preaching 45 years ago, African-Americans lived their big dream. The night of November 4th, full of Gospels and cries of joy, went down in history as the moment when Civil War wounds were at last healed and the [...]

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Un Afro-Américain à la maison blanche !! Il s’agit bien sur de BARACK OBAMA.
OBAMA qui a nettement battu son adversaire républicain JOHN McCAIN pour devenir le nouveau maitre du monde et le 44 ème président des Etats-Unis.
Cette victoire d’un premier Afro-Américain à entrer à la [...]

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Fast Food Hits Mediterranean;a DietSuccumbs

A fast-food restaurant in Kasteli, Crete, offers pizza and burgers in addition to more traditional, and more healthful, Greek salads.
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
KASTELI, Greece — Dr. Michalis Stagourakis has seen a transformation of his pediatric practice [...]

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It was characterized as a historic day for the New Acropolis Museum. A big step for the repatriation of the Parthenon marbles. The return of the Palermo fragment, a foot from a sculpture of the ancient Greek hunt goddess Artemis, which was originally stood above [...]

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Sept. 18 (Bloomberg.com)
In 1983, Isaac Arazi and his wife were caught in sectarian fighting during Lebanon’s warA Shiite Muslim militiaman helped the couple escape. Arazi, a leader of Lebanon’s tiny Jewish community, sees the incident as a lesson in the Arab country’s tradition of [...]

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