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When Time and Warner merged back in 1989, skeptics wondered whether the House of Luce would succumb to new corporate pressures and lose its edge as a credible and independent source of information. They wondered anew a year ago, when Time Warner and AOL completed their media megamerger...
Israeli-Palestinian violence flared anew Friday, amid growing Arab frustration over what they see as the Bush administration's failure to restrain Ariel Sharon. Twelve Palestinians have been killed in clashes in Gaza since Thursday night, as gunmen have launched new attacks on Israeli soldiers and settlers there, and Israeli tanks invaded the Rafah refugee camp. Gaza had been relatively quiet over the past month as violence raged on the West Bank, but Palestinian leaders there may be inclined to take the initiative right now, which would stoke the regional political fires that first forced the Bush administration to intervene...
...fact one of the biggest jokes in the whole movie. In the film’s beguiling worldview, young infatuation is pure and real, unsullied by the nuptial-obsession of elders (Caroline, Sam’s family). We can appreciate Ringwald’s youthful charm and honesty anew, and see how she stands head-and-shoulders above the curent crop of teen movie queens/Maxim models...
Against this backdrop, Israel faced anew a quondam quandary: either it could pursue the West’s vain hope that Arafat would work for peace, or it could write him off and fight terrorism alone. Having endured suicide bombings of a scale that the United States would never stomach, Ariel Sharon chose the latter. America should have supported its ally. Instead, motivated by the highly questionable view that restraining Sharon would win Arab support for U.S. action against Saddam Hussein, President Bush scolded Sharon for doing in Palestine what America did in Afghanistan; and in so doing, Bush vitiated...
...result something of a media circus has swirled around West and his clashes with University President Lawrence H. Summers. West’s departure would at least put an end to these divisive and distracting conflicts and would allow both West and the Afro-American studies department to focus anew on intellectual, and not political, pursuits...