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July 1, 2011
Strauss-Kahn is released from house arrest as case weakens
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest on Friday as the sexual assault case against him moved one step closer to dismissal after prosecutors told a Manhattan judge that they had serious problems with the case.
Flotilla delayed until next week
Activists have delayed a protest flotilla to the Gaza Strip until next week.\n
U.S. immigration includes Israel on watch list
Israel is on a list compiled by U.S. immigration authorities of countries that might harbor terrorists.\n
Wild Wild Left Coast
California is defined, both geographically and psychologically, by the fact that the state sits on the ragged edge of the continent — “an ambiguous portion of the whole state,” as Philip L. Fradkin puts it in “The Left Coast: California on the Edge” (University of California Press: $29.95), a superb work of art and text that seeks to understand what we really mean when we casually refer to “the Coast.”
Who doesn’t want a two-state solution?
For an unreconstructed Trekkie, it was an irresistible hook.