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Ibrahim Barzak is one of the best reporters I know. We got to know each other back in 1992, when he was about 16; I had just started with AP, and he had inherited his father’s correspondency. Hikmet Barzak, who married late in life, had died after reporting Gaza for the AP since the 1950s. […]

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After more than a half-century, veteran Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff penned his final missive this week for the indie weekly which dumped him on New Year’s Eve. Hentoff, 83, who is known as a fierce civil libertarian as well as a noted jazz critic, was — given his general political disposition — remarkably even-handed […]

The New York Times decontructs the two very different images the Israeli army is apparently trying to portray on its Web site. In the English version, striking pictures of beautiful, smiling female soldiers. For the Hebrew version, the photos are more, well, male. Here’s the take in the Times:  The sequence of images of female […]

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