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Many college seniors have decided to ride out the uncertain economy by staying in school longer than they had planned. Scores of honors graduates at Lehigh University, in Bethlehem, Pa., are taking the school's offer of a fifth year of tuition-free classes. Elsewhere, thousands of college students have to shell out big bucks to go to grad school. The number of students who took the Graduate Record Examinations, a requirement for many graduate programs, jumped 18% this year. But the glut of applicants has driven down acceptance rates, which at the University of Buffalo Law School, for example...
...Matt Rees/ Ramallah, with Jamil Hamad/ Bethlehem and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem
...view, Area A has ceased to exist. Israel now conducts daily operations inside the towns that Oslo placed under PA control, and is, as far as the lives of ordinary Palestinians are concerned, the only relevant authority. It is the Israeli military that determines whether Palestinians living in Bethlehem or Ramallah get to walk their streets or are forced to remain inside under curfew; it is the Israeli military that determines whether Palestinians get to leave one Palestinian city for another; and it is the Israeli military that decides even whether the PA's security personnel are allowed onto their...
Once Arafat was freed, negotiations over Bethlehem did pick up. At a May 3 meeting in Ramallah, Arafat's Cabinet ministers questioned his willingness to accede to U.S. and British proposals that some of the men inside the church be deported. "What can I do? This is what the Americans want," Arafat complained. "I can't continue saying no to the Americans. You should show some understanding of my situation...
...facing deportation were the first to leave the church. "The men sent abroad were heartbroken and crying," says Mazin Hussain, 28, an officer in the Palestinian Authority's drug-prevention unit. "They sacrificed themselves so the siege could end, for the sake of the people of Bethlehem." When the group of 26 militants entered Gaza by bus, they were greeted like returning heroes by the crowd lining the streets. That evening, military intelligence's Shatara, 23, chatted by cell phone with his girlfriend back in Bethlehem. "Yes, I've had a bath," he told...