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IN PICTURES / Are boycotts and sanctions really effective?When it comes to the Middle East and other areas of the world, a certain word seems to have taken over the current affairs agenda: sanctions. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using every possible platform to call for painful sanctions against Iran, Israel's ambassadors are busy contending with a movement that is calling for the imposition of a boycott and sanctions on Israel.
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Neo-Nazis? No such thing VIENNA - January 2010. Light snow dusts the streets of the Austrian capital. The temperature has plunged to below zero. In the pond of the Stadtpark, in the center of town, ducks are still swimming, perhaps taking advantage of the last hours before the water freezes over. Outside St. Stephen's Cathedral, horses harnessed to carriages send snorts of hot steam into the frigid air.
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Present traumaKhaled Husseini?s hands never stop shaking. His legs also tremble when he sits down. Husseini says he cannot stop the bodily tremors, not even when he sleeps.
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Tears and more tears I finished working on the final draft of my script at 6 A.M. last Thursday. I returned the keys to the office where, over the past five months, I'd spent no few 14-hour days. We celebrated meeting our target, the production company sent me flowers and chocolate, and last Sunday, filming for the new series began. But, contrary to what I expected, instead of feeling thrilled and happy about finishing all the exhausting work - I find myself crying all the time for no good reason.
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I ask you "A little scraggy" from Upper Galilee asks:
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