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The Communists considered ceding Kosovo to Albania but instead decided that it should revert to its antebellum status quo.
As adult children of alcoholics, sons of deadbeat dads, witnesses to battered-spouse syndrome, and victims of every sort of paddling and walloping and thwacking, Republicans are no longer ceding ground to Bill Clinton when it comes to feeling the pain of a dysfunctional nation.
Instead, in a number of cases their rulers sought to buy off local Islamist movements by ceding control of many social and educational issues.
This is a disturbing ceding of the field to professionals.
The cover story explains why Jerusalem could be the tripwire for World War III and profiles the delusional extremists who could ignite it: Jewish fanatics who want to retake the Temple Mount by force, Christian apocalypse-awaiters who want to see the temple rebuilt, and seething sheiks who will wage war before ceding authority over the Dome of the Rock.