The weather was an apt metaphor for the chilling effects of a perennial news industry desensitized to its own numbing.
Most foreign analysts believe that change in American Foreign policy is exceptionally rare.
Even when there is a major ideological transition, such as the one from Clinton to Bush, foreign analysts believe that change would be minimal. Change in American foreign policy is usually in nuances and not in substance. By Omer Bin Abdullah Muslim Americans breathed a collective sigh of relief when Dr. Anwar Haddam and Dr. Mazen Al-Najjar walked out of prisons in Virginia and Florida, serving 1461 and 1307 days respectively without trial under the banner of secret evidence in America. By Nigel Perry Sitting here in St. Paul, Minnesota, scanning the international wire service reports breaking like a speedboat oil slick on the shores of a nature reserve, I wonder if it is finally the time to admit that the craft of journalism is dead, buried under the thick sludge of a media system whose own worst enemy is its 'efficiency'. Gulf newspapers lament feeble results of Arab summit Gulf newspapers on Thursday lamented the feeble results of the Arab summit on the Palestinian issue and Iraq, but held out a glimmer of hope for improving Arab unity.