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...from the political conflict between Israelis and Palestinians - it's an expression of that conflict. Arafat urges his followers to fight until they have won a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. Sharon warned this week that no peace talks can occur until the Palestinians had been "badly beaten" and were ready to accept Israel's terms. Both sides are continuing to negotiate their future relationship - but with weapons. And they'll continue to negotiate that way until such time as they have fumbled their way, with U.S. help, to a new formula for negotiating with words...
...Following the deaths of 21 Israelis in two attacks at the weekend, Sharon promised "continuous military pressure" against the Palestinians and vowed that there could be no negotiations before the Palestinians are "badly beaten?so they get the thought out of their minds that they can impose an agreement on Israel that Israel does not want." Yet, Sharon remains strategically paralyzed. The international and domestic pressures that prevent him from launching a war to destroy Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority are mounting, but his orientation remains to seek a military victory before any sort of political process. Cabinet hawks demand...
Kenya ranks near the bottom of Berlin-based Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, beaten only by such "show-me-the-money" countries as Nigeria and Indonesia. High-level corruption continues unabated, as evidenced by the 1990s Goldenberg scandal - named for a company that allegedly exported nonexistent gold and then claimed export credits from the Central Bank. The financial scam cost Kenya at least $400 million and allegedly involved top officials and senior politicians close to President Daniel arap Moi. International donors have frozen funds earmarked for Kenya in large part because of the country's failure...
...space of a few months toward the end of last year, one young woman was shot in the head and several other people brutally beaten in cell-phone robberies. In January Lord Woolf, Britain's most senior judge, ruled that all mobile-phone thieves should be given custodial sentences regardless of their age. Several teenagers have already felt the force of the edict - and two weeks ago Abdullahi Fidow, 16, was sentenced to six years in a young offenders' institution for his role in two violent robberies involving cell phones...
Everyone’s odds-on favorite to take the title, though, is Trinity’s freshman sensation, Bernardo Samper, who has handily beaten the best in college squash all season...