To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
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Monday, October 24, 2005
Can Assad Survive? The German Press Thinks Not
In the wake of the UN report linking high members of his administration to the assassination of Lebanese President Rafik Hariri Bashar Assad is coming under enormous pressure both domestically and internationally. Der Spiegel surveys the German press and finds overwhelming support for regime change in Syria and a general consensus that Assad is unlikely to survive the current crisis.
Read it here.
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