The "Al Aqsa intifada" may be nasty, painful and costly the Tel Aviv stock index has shed $10 billion in share values in two weeks but it has certainly closed Jewish ranks.Yet, just as Arabs would do well to note that their outpouring of hostility may not really serve practical Palestinian interests, Israelis would be wise to take pause.
"Columbine has certainly caused us to take a closer look at the relationship between values and culture and our society," said Gov. Bill Owens, a Republican who supports posting the Ten Commandments in public schools if it is voluntary.
"The door has certainly not been closed on future festival cricket in the south of the county, but at this time the club committee felt that our focus should be at Chelmsford".
Things had certainly changed.
Billy Bob Thornton and Ted Tally, the director and screenwriter, respectively, of this big, slow, western, have certainly stuck close to their source, Cormac McCarthy's beloved National Book Award-winning novel of 1992.
We've certainly had close calls.
They have certainly come close.
The failure, yet again, of "light touch regulation" is now glaringly obvious; this couldn't be said to be worse than the financial crisis, but it has certainly been felt closer to home – the sickening lurch in the stomach millions have felt when they realised that they were likely to have eaten something they'd never have chosen, something they find repulsive.
A general shift in attitudes, as well as legal obligations, has certainly brought equality closer to women in science.
"And the thing about negative campaigns, and I have certainly seen this up close and from afar, is they come at a cost.
