Word: ariel
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...Ariel Sharon was elected on promises that he'd play the bad cop with the Palestinians, but he needed a good cop - that's why he tapped Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres as his foreign minister. So while Sharon, on Thursday, was promising new tough tactics in retaliation for attacks from Palestinian territory, Shimon Peres was in Washington talking the soothing language of peace and negotiations. But the bad cop is still the one on everyone's mind, and despite the language of accord between Peres and both President Bush and Secretary of State Powell following their meetings...
...ARIEL SHARON Invades and withdraws from Gaza twice in 2 days. In or out? Rand McNally needs to know...
...question of how Palestinian attacks will be ended is only one flaw in the proposal. Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has instructed Peres to make clear Israel has problems with a blanket freeze on settlement activity. He's also questioning the four-week timetable, proposing a three-month cooling off period before talks. But most important, Sharon has made abundantly clear that he has no intention of negotiating on the basis of offers made by Ehud Barak. Sharon considers the Oslo peace process over, and wants to negotiate a series of long-term interim non-belligerency agreements with the Palestinians...
...Dorothy A. Fortenberry, Jonathan A. Kelner and Esteban A. Real from Leverett House, Paven Malhotra from Lowell House, Emily Buck from Mather House, Michael Gerber, Jonathan M. Gribetz, Naamit M. Kurshan and Travis J. Schedler from Pforzheimer House, Stephen E. Sachs from Quincy House, and Ravi V. Shah and Ariel H. Simon from Winthrop House. Baer and Sachs are Crimson executives, and McKean is a Crimson editor...
...Soon after the Hamas attack, Israel launched its biggest incursion into Palestinian-controlled territory, taking over for a day a swath of Beit Hanoun, a town in the Gaza Strip from which the mortars had been fired. Inside his Cabinet, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon faced criticism that he moved into Beit Hanoun without consulting other ministers. "No, no, we couldn't convene the Cabinet," Sharon said, brushing aside the critics. "I phoned a few ministers though." Sharon didn't phone his Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, until the operation was under way. Bypassing the elder statesman left Sharon diplomatically exposed...