Oh, Zidane, what hast thou wrought upon us?

Jockey probed for head-butting horse

"Angry jockey does a 'Zidane' to his horse," read the headline of London's Evening Standard, referring to French soccer star Zinedine Zidane's infamous head-butt in the World Cup final.
In other news, I received the new issue of FOURSQUARE, featuring work by Brenda Iijima, Juliana Spahr, Jenny Boully and Maureen Thorson.

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"There are three things Israel can be, and it can only be two out of them. 1. Israel can have the occupied territories, 2. Israel can be a Jewish state, 3. Israel can be a democracy. If Israel wants the occupied territories and wants to be a democracy, then it has to resort to representational policies, in which case it can no longer be a Jewish state."

Joe, a research fellow at the James Baker III
Institute for Public Policy

French newspaper Le Monde also reports that the International Criminal Court of The Hague "has not received any [war crimes] complaints regarding Lebanon, and does not have juridiction over citizens of states that have not ratified its status." Neither Lebanon nor Israel have signed the treaty.

Interpret that anyway you want.

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