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The military leaders controlling Egypt after President Hosni Mubarak's ouster have pledged to turn over power in a matter of months. As they work with civilians toward transition to a democratically elected government, trust is key; the army has vested interests and has shown no fondness for democracy in the past.

The president wants to reshape the federal government. But the history of such endeavors suggests that Obama may find the effort more frustrating — and less rewarding — than he's expecting.

Miss Havisham is one of Charles Dickens' most enduring characters. She appears in Great Expectations as an eccentric recluse, jilted at the altar years ago, who still wears her wedding gown and presides over a rotting feast. In his new novel, Ronald Frame imagines the kind of life that would have created such a woman.

It's the holidays, so everyone can begin drinking, eating, and going to the theater. We'll talk holiday cocktails, plays, and a few new restaurants.

Imperial County sprawls across deserts, date groves and labor camps from Julian to Arizona and from Riverside County to the border. William Vollman has written a 1,300-page portrait of this immense hot and dry land, the people who pioneered it and the people who live and work there today.

You can recycle your old Christmas tree in a way that returns it back to the earth. The City of San Diego's Environmental Services Department offers free tree recycling.

An ongoing air assault on Gaza is only the beginning of an operation to shut down Hamas and halt rocket attacks from the territory, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says.

So these won't be remembered as the Vonn-couver Olympics after all. It's looking like they will belong to the entire U.S. delegation instead.

There is concern among some that the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood could rise to power and push Egypt away from secularism. In an op-ed for The Boston Globe, Emile Nakhleh, former director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program at the CIA, argues those fears are misplaced.