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...detractors, Ariel Sharon will always seem the fanatic. He convinced Menachem Begin that invading Lebanon in 1982 would be worth the costs, and in 2000 he insisted on visiting the Temple Mount, the Muslim-controlled holy site in Jerusalem?a walkabout that helped trigger the second intifadeh. As Israel's Foreign Minister, he refused to shake Yasser Arafat's hand at the Wye Plantation peace talks in 1998 and eventually made sure Arafat spent his last years barricaded in his offices in Ramallah, unable to jet around the world espousing the Palestinian cause. His planetary dimensions?...
...destroyed a few dozen buildings in Qibya, killing 69 villagers and earning Israel a censure at the U.N. Charged with cleaning Palestinian fighters out of the now Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip after the '67 war, he did so with ruthless efficiency. It was Sharon who pushed Israeli Prime Minister Begin to bomb Iraq's nuclear facilities in 1981, an operation applauded today but widely condemned then...
...Jerusalem hospital where Sharon is being treated, said that Sharon is slowly improving. “His condition is still critical but stable, and there is improvement in the CT picture of the brain,” Mor-Yosef said, according to the Associated Press. Doctors said they would begin bringing Sharon out of his coma this morning, which will enable them to evaluate his condition better. Within the Harvard community, there was uncertainty about what the end of Sharon’s tenure would mean for Israeli politics and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, along with hope that...
...tsunami devastated the area, he finds himself next to a loud, officious-seeming, irascible man in a safari suit, his hair carefully oiled. The visiting writer tries to sidle away, but soon his obstreperous neighbor is sharing his complaints with him. Only as they continue talking does Ghosh begin to realize that the man is, in fact, an epidemiologist, and has lost his wife, his daughter, the whole careful life he has built up, in the tragedy. The loudness, Ghosh comes to recognize, is only a lament for what words cannot convey...
...heavy buying, has started, says Padmanaban, the Madras jewelry-store owner. "People have just stopped coming for two, three weeks," he says. "But in the end, they will accept this price. They have no other choice. They must buy gold for weddings." Won't Indians stop buying once they begin to understand they can get better returns in stocks and mutual funds? Sitting under a portrait of the seven-kilogram crown of gold that his shop crafted for the goddess Padmavathi Devi, Padmanaban begins to rock with laughter. "It may happen, but it'll take a hundred years...