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...latest agreements reflect a growing sense that Arafat and Barak, each for his own reasons, need to avert an escalation of violence. On Arafat's side, there's the realization that no matter how intense the violence, he's unlikely to persuade the international community to send in a U.N. peacekeeping force. Solidifying the diplomatic gains he's made over the past two months may now require that he act more forcefully to tamp down violence and return to the negotiating table with greater international backing...
...avert the crisis, he says, the Internet needs new and improved algorithms for hubs to use to move data to their destinations. But developing those algorithms, he says, will require government sponsorship...
...Israeli-Palestinian roller-coaster ride of violence looks set to take a precipitous dive, and there may be little its passengers can do to avert the plunge. Avenging the dead, after all, is a principle central to both cultures, and it has given the current wave of violence a self-sustaining life of its own. Israel's security cabinet met Wednesday with a view to abandoning its self-styled "policy of restraint" in dealing with the Palestinian intifada, following the killing of four Israelis in drive-by shootings on Monday. And Palestinian gunmen continued to confront Israeli soldiers and settlers...
Harvard tried to avert the Minutemen, but No. 13 U. Mass (23-10, 11-2 CWPA) was just too strong...
...humorless man deflated me. I thought about how mysterious and unaccountable laughter is, and how strange that an incapacity to laugh amounts to a disability. You almost avert your gaze...