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...blows" to put down the demonstrations, hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children have been clubbed and battered by Israeli soldiers. The apparent aim was not just to punish specific troublemakers but to terrorize the population into submission. Said Shamir: "Our task now is to re-create the barrier of fear between Palestinians and the Israeli military, and once again put the fear of death into the Arabs of the areas so as to deter them from attacking us anymore." Until a renewed outburst of protests in the West Bank and Gaza at week's end that, according to Arab...
...violence must instead turn into calamity. Downriver (Houghton Mifflin; 210 pages; $15.95) offsets those virtues with a plot that, like other recent work of his, relies unsatisfyingly on impersonation and concealed identity, and places conveniently offstage his investigator's neater tricks of digging up information or penetrating a security barrier...
Hayes hit the 1000-point barrier when she sank the front end of a one-and-one just three minutes and 35 seconds into the first half...
...Frontcourt: Senior Hayes headlines the Harvard frontcourt as the Crimson's second all time leading scorer (955 points) and team point leader last season. The tri-captain was shy only 13 points of the 1000-point barrier heading into last night's contest at Smith...
...sales. A study by the National Academy of Sciences estimates that U.S. restrictions on high-tech exports cost American firms more than $11 billion annually in lost business. As the U.S. works to reduce its trade deficit and recapture overseas markets, those restrictions amount to a self-imposed trade barrier the U.S. can scarcely afford. Furthermore, maintains Harvard's Lewis Branscomb, former chief scientist at IBM, the scope of restricted items, from straitjackets to wind tunnels, is unnecessarily broad. "It would be nice to ensure that the Russians didn't learn anything important," he says, "but there's just...