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amazon.co.uk (Dec 10 2006 21:59 GMT) - Price: £356.91; Rating: 3. |
Ya Libnan | Live News from Lebanon
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Hezbollah OKs Arab peace plan for Lebanon (Dec 10 2006 21:58 GMT) - Beirut - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has accepted an Arab League plan to resolve the crisis in Lebanon pitting the Hezbollah-led opposition against the government, the bloc's envoy said on Sunday. Mustafa Ismail, the envoy of Arab League chief Amr Mussa, told Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television from Damascus he had received Nasrallah's "agreement in principle" to the proposals and said he was returning to Beirut on Monday. A Lebanese official said Arab League secretary general Amr Mussa would himself travel to Beirut on Tuesday. Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah confirmed that the movement's leader had given a positive response to the Arab envoy. "Nasrallah has informed Mustafa Ismail that Hezbollah sees positively any initiative that includes the formation of a government of national unity which secures a blocking minority," Fadlallah said. |
GreenCine Daily
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Torino Dispatch. (Dec 10 2006 21:52 GMT) - Dennis Lim looks back on the highlights of last month's festival in Torino. The sensation of abundance - a common one at the best film festivals - can be especially acute at Torino. A high-minded oasis of cinephilia that concluded... |
Blogcritics
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Book Review: Sign of the Cross by Chris Kuzneski (Dec 10 2006 21:50 GMT) - By page 60 of Chris Kuzneski’s Sign of the Cross, I was finally ready to declare that the well of plots derived from Roman Catholic antiquity and intrigue most recently plumbed by Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, had finally dried up. I thought it too dramatically convenient that it took Kuzneski’s Interpol agent, Nick Dial an age to figure out the complete text of the Sign of the Cross, Signum Crucis - In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. |
amywohl News
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his latest article (Dec 10 2006 21:48 GMT) - If you have never read the crisp, clear prose of Joel the Programmer, offering you the benefit of his experiences as a software developer, you will enjoy reading his latest article on the difference between a product which takes advantage of Simplicity and a product which thinks simplicity equals a readuced feature set. I was much amused to see that he selected word processing software as one of his examples, noting that there are lots of developers who have offered a product with 20% of the standard feature set, but that most users inevitably need something that isn't there. For years, we have debated with vendors who wanted to build a 10-20% office suite (or its component word processor, spreadsheet, or presentation software elements). |
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