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"Someone who sends a car bomb today is trying to destroy the hopes of the Palestinian people," a Palestinian official declared.
Below the moon (or cow) is a sheep (or dog) who also seems ready to rumble, and to the right of the sheep (or dog) is an eagle with a cloud above its head, or maybe a cartoon balloon showing what the eagle is thinking (it's tough to make out), probably something very funny, indicating that the eagle hopes to get its own comic strip some day.
The Japan Times said Tuesday that the election had "injected greater uncertainty into Japan's political future, but at the same time the outcome has raised hopes for the realization of greater justice and fairness in the nation's parliamentary democracy."
A Nation article exposes how American corporations are lobbying for China: Boeing, AT&T, the Big Three automakers, and other megacompanies have hired PR firms and lobbyists to burnish China's image on Capitol Hill, mostly in hopes of winning it permanent MFN status.
The basic concept is hokey, if mildly original: A band of old-west nasties stumbles into a strange town populated by the souls of dead outlaws doing penance in the hopes of earning a seat on the great stagecoach to heaven.