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...Sharon is under pressure from settlers there to retake the Abu Sneineh hill from which sniper fire killed a ten-month-old girl. Israel?s security service is concerned that if Sharon is not seen to be responding strongly, one of the settlers will turn around and pull a Baruch Goldstein, a terrorist action against Palestinians that would create a lot more of an unpredictable and dangerous situation than Sharon?s bombing. Another option Sharon is weighing is whether to allow Jews back onto the Temple Mount for the first time since the intifadah. Some security advisers are saying this...
...what they see as the biblical Land of Israel regardless of Palestinian ownership or international law, have little interest in seeing through the peace process. And the present hair-trigger climate certainly gives the more reckless among them plenty of opportunity to subvert it. In 1994, Hebron settler Baruch Goldstein tried to do just that by massacring 29 Palestinians in a religious shrine before being beaten to death, and his action is still celebrated annually by sections of the settler community as an act of martyrdom - even though the Israeli army earlier this year bulldozed a shrine to the killer...
...Dalton Conley, a sociologist at New York University, doesn't know why low-birth-weight babies are nearly four times as likely not to graduate from high school on time as their siblings. But he and Neil Bennett of the Baruch School of Public Affairs know that it happens, having parsed reams of University of Michigan data on families going back to 1968, and came up with the longest view yet of how underweight babies (5.5 pounds or less) turn...
...With a solid education in hand, Shalala moved into academia. From 1970 to 1972 she taught political science at Bernard Baruch College, and between 1972 and 1979 she taught politics and education at Teachers College at Columbia University...
While Giuliani's blunt personality and law-and-order emphasis have earned him something of a despotic reputation in New York City, says Douglas Muzzio, professor of public affairs at Baruch College in New York, when it comes to policies, he will be tough for Clinton to pin down. "Rudy is not a traditional Republican," Muzzio says. "He's pro-gay rights and pro-choice, and while that wouldn't play very well in a national race, it could play well statewide...