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...compromise candidate after Hamas and Fatah brokered their unity government in Mecca earlier this year. And it came as no surprise when he announced his resignation on Monday, amid a fierce resurgence of fighting between the two camps that has claimed at least eight lives since Sunday. Absent a power base of his own, Kawasmeh's prospects for integrating the fighting forces of the rival factions into the Palestinian Authority's security forces were always slim. But his resignation may nonetheless portend the collapse of the unity government, and the onset of a full-blown Palestinian civil...
...Kwong wants to be something other than a crass, hypocritical Republican, absent the conservative ideals that have invigorated his party—there are so many of these already—he would do well to read The Salient and apologize to its editors...
...current UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, found that 92 percent of undergraduates contacted through a phone survey supported extending library hours. “Given that most schools have students centers and libraries that are open for 24-hour periods, it seemed notably absent at Harvard,” Petersen said yesterday. Students working in the Lamont Library Cafe—which opened this past fall—expressed support for making the 24-hour schedule permanent. “It gives people a place to go if they need to work,” said...
...Protestantism, says Neri, takes root quickest in impoverished urban areas where the state is absent. But significant income gains among the poorest sectors of society, combined with a far-reaching government assistance program, have given hope to people who once turned to Protestant Pentecostalism for financial and social...
Noticeably absent from the Harvard lineup in the team’s final game was senior midfielder Carle Stenmark, who left last week’s game against Yale early in the contest due to injury and wasn’t available for Saturday’s game with the Big Green. It was perseverance in the face of a number of injuries—most notably the ankle sprain that kept Calvert out of the first two Crimson contests—that highlighted the squad’s hardened spirit throughout the season...