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By the time I met Frank Luntz over coffee (for me) and a large serving of vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce (for him) one recent Jerusalem evening, he was plainly exhausted. One can only empathize. It’s tough work when you’re advising Israeli political leaders on how to craft their English sentences. He had been in the country for two days, and reeled off a list of the local notables he’d seen that was fit for a visiting monarch. Which I suppose is what he is. Frank Luntz, communications king. The tubby Jewish kid – well, he makes incessant jokes...

Jerusalem, July 11, 2010 -- A tiny clay fragment – dating from the 14th century B.C.E. – that was found in excavations outside Jerusalem's Old City walls contains the oldest written document ever found in Jerusalem, say researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The find, believed to be part of a tablet from a royal archives, further testifies to the importance of Jerusalem as a major city in the Late Bronze Age, long before its conquest by King David, they say. The clay fragment was uncovered recently during sifting of fill excavated from beneath a 10th century B.C.E. tower...

WASHINGTON, June 16, 2010 – A new university in Afghanistan will help to bring educational opportunities for the country’s security forces. "The desire for a self-sustaining, self-sufficient Afghan national security force is what led NATO Training Mission Afghanistan to one of our top priorities: leader development," Jack Kem, deputy to the NATO Training Mission Afghanistan commander, said during a "DoD Live" bloggers roundtable yesterday. "Afghan Defense University will be the leader development institution for Afghanistan [and] the capstone for the Afghan security education system," Kem added. The university, being built on a 105-acre site in the Afghan capital of Kabul,...