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...Sharon is mixing his messages. In response to two painful Palestinian hits on Israeli military targets in the West Bank and Gaza, Sharon's army pounded Palestinian targets for two days last week and fired a missile directly into the Ramallah compound where Yasser Arafat remains under virtual house arrest. And in a speech to the nation on Thursday he vowed to build "buffer zones to achieve security separation" between Israelis and Palestinians. But a day later he ordered his army to avoid initiating military action in the West Bank and Gaza for seven days, following a deal brokered with...
...trend of increasingly invasive ads, and in light of the Super Bowl and the current winter Olympics—which once again has been a euphoric corporate “sell-a-thon”—now is as good a time as ever to try to arrest what is quickly becoming a pressing social issue...
...Sharon's popularity has plummeted in the two months he's kept Arafat under siege, the Palestinian leader's domestic approval rating has jumped over the same period, according to a Bir Zeit University survey, from 38 percent to 52 percent. Turns out that two months of virtual house arrest by the Israelis has been something of a political tonic for the Palestinian leader, his fortunes rising as long as he's allowed to play the victim. And the sharp uptick of violence appears to have reminded a growing number of Israelis that regardless of Arafat's status, resolving...
...mavericks who offered Hollywood movies for a $1-a-pop always claimed they were streaming their videos through a Taiwanese legal loophole. Now Movie88.com may have to tell it to a judge. TIME has learend that Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) plans to close down the site and arrest two leading officials. "I can and will take it down tomorrow," said Eric Lee, heading of the CIB's ninth squad on Tuesday. The site has become inaccessible to Web users...
...says "Tan" (or Chen, depending on pronunciation) is actually a 39-year-old Malaysian lawyer who visits Taiwan every month, and vows to arrest him - and a second suspect named Yeh - the next time he sets foot in Taipei. But since TIME's story, the policeman isn't expecting to see the Internet buccaneer any time soon...