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Sarah Palin showed up at the Rolling Thunder bikers' rally on Sunday and said nothing, thus throwing the media into a frenzy. Now she's headed to various other patriotic sites, which will send the press into further spasms. There is no better moment than now for Sarah Palin to run for president, writes The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart. The ex-governor who would snare most of the social-conservative votes that might have gone to Mike Huckabee and Haley Barbour—and in 2016, she'd be old news and face a stronger primary field.
That didn't last long: A truce between the Yemeni government and tribal groups signed just a few days ago is already over. Reuters reported that more than 20 people were killed in Sanaa overnight. "The ceasefire agreement has ended," a government official said Tuesday. The return to violence renews fears of outright civil war. In Yemen's second-largest city, Taiz, police have killed more than 50 protesters since Sunday.
Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar, the former chief of Egypt's Bank of Alexandria, was arrested in New York City Monday night for sexually assaulting a hotel maid. Omar, 74, was staying at the Pierre hotel on 5th Avenue when he allegedly groped, kissed, and "gyrated" against the woman Sunday night. Police say he summoned her to bring tissues and locked the door behind her. "I'm not up here for that," the woman told him; he then allegedly asked for her phone number. The New York Post says she gave him a fake number, at which point he allowed her to unlock the door and leave.
After an alleged NATO airstrike on two civilian homes killed 14 people in Afghanistan Sunday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday he will no longer allow NATO strikes on homes. "From this moment, airstrikes on the houses of people are not allowed," he said. NATO says it always seeks Afghan coordination and approval for strikes and that it intends to meet Karzai's demand; however, a NATO spokeswoman noted that insurgents intentionally use civilians as human shields.
On the heels of a big profile in New York Magazine, Rolling Stone has an article about Fox News chief Roger Ailes that sheds some light on his paranoia. According to Dan Cooper, the first managing editor of Fox News, Ailes had bombproof glass installed in his office—and personally inspected plexi-glass samples—because, he said, "They'll be protesting down there, those gays." Rolling Stone also says Ailes tells people he is an Al Qaeda target—and once put Fox News on lockdown when he spotted a dark-looking person in apparent Muslim garb on the security monitor on his desk. It turned out to be a janitor.
How do you know who's lying and who's telling the truth about a rape? These cops crack New York's most shocking sex crimes, from no-name scoundrels to big-power suspects like former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Egyptian banker Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar, arrested at the Pierre Hotel on Monday. NYPD expert Christopher Dickey profiles the Special Victims Division, in this week's Newsweek.
Terrorism Trial's Unreliable Narrator by Sebastian Rotella David Headley is the key figure in the Chicago trial threatening to further strain U.S. relations with Pakistan. Sebastian Rotella reports on Headley's credibility woes—and the revelations ahead.
Summer 2011 TV Preview by Jace Lacob Jace Lacob rounds up what's worth watching in the coming months, from True Blood and Torchwood to British period drama The Hour and the return of Damages.
Great article about the sports - and business - lessons on teamwork to be taken from the Miami Heat. Like or hate the Heat, one must give all the credit in the world to LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosch, Pat Riley, and Eric Erik Spoelstra for their coordination on all of this and making the mix work. �Read at the link below:
Password Analysis Measures Typing Speed and Rhythm Rebecca Kutzer-Rice recently wrote about a research project that developed a key-pattern analysis program to strengthen user authentication before allowing a login. She noted that the program measures the speed and rhythm at which a password is typed. These biometrically based passwords are more secure than traditional passwords and could help prevent hacking attacks. Check it out.
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