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Arafat has exhausted the patience of Palestinians from all walks of life--it is no longer only the more radical elements who consider Arafat a traitor. Allegations of high-level corruption and mishandling of funds abound throughout the West Bank and Gaza. According to a recent United Nations report, the Palestinian economy suffered a loss of $1.15 billion over the first four months of the uprising and is on the brink of financial ruin. Although the uprising itself exacted an enormous financial toll, it is widely believed that Arafat's autocratic handling of Palestinian finances has greatly exacerbated the situation...
...search for a motive. "I can't say absolutely that it was a professional hit," says DeKalb district attorney J. Tom Morgan, "but it was obviously a planned assassination." For a man so well liked, investigators have learned, Derwin Brown had plenty of enemies. Theories and motives abound as two grand juries prepare to hear evidence. Corruption at the jail was supposedly so prevalent that Brown campaigned on auditing the books, firing the culprits and replacing three decades of cronyism. "Clean it up," his supporters had shouted into bullhorns the year before as they drove slowly through the towns...
That's right, strip clubs. Nudie bars abound in Florida's very own "Sin City." It has been estimated that there are currently 72 different places where women take off their clothes on stage for the viewing pleasure of mostly randy adolescents, depraved business men, and the occasional wide-eyed tourist...
...winter, the first reading/exam period of the new millennium is finally drawing to a close. For the average Harvard student, the past three weeks have been filled with a dash of studying, a smattering of paper writing and a whole lot of white noise. Of all the euphemisms that abound for this strange month-out-of-time, the most appropriate (although "hell on earth" might be a close second) is definitely "procrastination period...
...often irksome form of English. Run-on sentences sprawl: "I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I'd still be waiting to get cremated." Redundancies abound: "The tall buildings and large courtyard with a watchtower must once have been the residence of a rich and powerful family at one time"; "I have a foreboding premonition." Some usages defy explanation: "Many pretty young girls have also suicided...