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Hawi, a Christian from Mount Lebanon turned big-city academic whose often political poetry had once made him an Arab nationalist hero, despaired over the wider Arab world's abandonment of his beloved Lebanon.
The Independent called the U.N. decision to pull its current mission out of East Timor "a grand Pontius Pilate-style washing of hands" and "a treacherous abandonment for the Timorese people."
' Chancellor Kohl wouldn't risk saying it in an election year overshadowed by the imminent abandonment of the beloved deutsche mark.
The New York Times , having dedicated much front space earlier in the week to the emerging cut, runs a front page "news analysis" piece on the politics of the vote but leads instead with the FCC's abandonment of its longstanding one-station-per-market ownership rule, a story nobody else fronts.
He's happy to toss out this statistic that folds in all possible childhood abandonment, and pin the blame entirely on the reforms in the divorce laws: "Only now are we beginning to appreciate the extent of the damage done," he writes.