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t on the debate about free speech in Europe: They suggest we Europeans have a partial, picky attitude to freedom of expression, and thus do not understand the real meaning of this fundamental liberty.The writers are Orhan Pamuk, a Turkish novelist, and David Irving, a British historian.They could not be more different. Mr. Pamuk is an internationally acclaimed author whose work has been translated into more than 20 languages. He is currently being charged in Turkey for denigrating Turkishness. His crime, for which he faces up to three years behind bars, was to question Ankara's official line on the mass killing of Armenians by Turks during World War I and to call for a more upfront analysis of those terrible events.Mr. Irving, by contrast, is a historian who denies the truth of the Nazi Holocaust. His words are vile and deeply offensive. He once claimed that more women died on the back seat of Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber in Auschwitz.He is currently in prison in Vienna,
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 o passengers can see a slice of New Englandstyle autumn. It's ridiculous.Every retail outlet has its fall leaves display, from local grocery stores to shopping centers. Even my kids' school library displays books about autumn, but none of the displays look anything like what's going on outside the school.Here's what I tell them and myself: Look a little harder for autumn in south Texas. The signs of the season are all around, but you must cultivate an eye for seeing them. It's like catching sight of that one goldfinch that paused in the backyard last month. We saw it because our eyes were trained on the backyard.Our version of fall has a lot to do with paying attention, and of expanding our ideas about the proper colors of fall. Then we can stick sprigs of delicate queen's crown and Mexican mint marigold in with the pyracantha, and call it like it is  a fall bouquet.Momentum occupies the driver's seat.Many analysts say that US stock prices, despite some hesitation last week, will soon roar past the 9000 level on
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 Hariri's death, the Syrian government remained relatively silent in the face of mounting calls from the Lebanese street and from the US and France for Syria to quit Lebanon. But according to Joshua Landis, a specialist on Syria now residing in Damascus who runs syriacomment.com, the mood in Damascus relaxed this week as Syria's President Bashar Assad spoke with the European and US press about withdrawing from Lebanon.There has been great relief in the last few days, ever since the president came out of the Palace and began to really address the issue of Lebanon, says Mr. Landis. His speech to parliament [Wednesday] was very reassuring. He said that Syria is going to get out of Lebanon in a few months, unequivocally.Syria says it is searching for an Arab solution to the international calls for Syria to release its political and military grip on Lebanon by focusing on implementing the 1989 Taif Accord, which ended the civil war in Lebanon and calls for a gradual withdrawal of Syrian troops (see story, page 1). Syri
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 is clearly coming.One Iraq war option that received public notice earlier this summer was a massive operation proposed by Gen. Tommy Franks, commander in chief of Central Command (CentCom). It involved upwards of 250,000 troops and months of deployment. It was, essentially, an extension of the Gulf War, a package of deployment plans that CentCom officers have been practicing and playing out in war games for over a decade.A second plan, attributed to former White House security adviser Gen. Wayne Downing, involved lightning strikes by Special Forces units in conjunction with Iraqi opposition troops, backed up by US air power. On the surface it was very similar to the strategy that toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan.If the first option seemed ponderous, the second may be too risky. Reports now indicate that the White House is focusing on a blend of the two. General Franks briefed President Bush Monday night on the latest plans, which call for upwards of 80,000 troops, plus a massive air campaign.The existence of a
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