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Working with Gideon Ariel, an Israeli ex-Olympic athlete and computer expert, Braden has wired people and fitted out his tennis courts with high- speed cameras, sensors and other gadgets that feed data into computers. His goal is to discover what really happens while an athlete is in action, and to use that knowledge to improve performance. An example: although Braden is a foremost advocate of top spin in tennis, he has proved, contrary to conventional wisdom, that tennis players who roll their racquets "over" the ball to impart top spin not only waste energy but also unnecessarily risk "tennis...
...opinion -- especially among those Israelis and Palestinians who have reached their majority since Israel took the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 -- failing to resolve the matter peacefully now will almost inevitably lead to another region-wide Arab-Israeli war. "Which we would win," says an aide to Ariel Sharon confidently. "And then we will be that much closer to the transfer" -- Israeli-speak for kicking the Palestinians out of the territories once...
Last week those hopes lay in rubble. Rather than risk losing power, Shamir chose to scuttle his peace diplomacy. He sidestepped a challenge to his leadership by embracing four conditions laid down by hard-line Industry and Trade Minister Ariel Sharon and his allies and plainly designed to be unacceptable to the Palestinians. Most indigestible was a restriction barring the 140,000 Arab residents of East Jerusalem from participating in the proposed elections. Shamir also agreed that Israel would not return any of the occupied territories to "foreign sovereignty," that the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank...
...Ariel Sharon lashes out against those who would surrender land, and has nothing nice to say about Yasser Arafat...
...Likud bloc must agree to share power with Labor, he pleaded, "to be united against the danger of a Palestinian state." But even that potent argument elicited little but jeers from hundreds of angry members of the right-wing Likud bloc's central committee. Cheers rang out only when Ariel Sharon, the big and assertive leader of the party's hard-liners, called for a narrow coalition without left-leaning Labor. "People in Labor say we must talk to the P.L.O.," he shouted. "That is not our stance." The raucous crowd screamed back its approval...