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...emergence of Abbas as Prime Minister has put even greater distance between the two old allies. The idea of creating the new post arose out of U.S. and Israeli demands that Arafat's power be diminished. Arafat tried to block it but ultimately could not face down the power of the U.S. At one point, according to officials both in Fatah and in the Palestinian Authority (Arafat's government), Arafat instructed his head of special forces, Bashir Nafa, to send someone to fire warning shots at the house of a prominent pro-Abbas cadre. Afterward, Abbas went off again...
...South Korea would automatically bring U.S. intervention?may soon be gone. Last week, Seoul and Washington announced U.S. troops will pull back at least 50 km to bases south of Seoul over the next few years. It makes military sense?a few thousand grunts were never going to block an invasion by the 1.1 million-strong North Korean military. And in an era of precision-guided munitions, officials insist the pullback won't undermine the U.S.-South Korean defense alliance?or send the wrong signal to Pyongyang. Says Lieut. Colonel Steven Boylan, a spokesman for U.S. forces in South Korea...
...from Britain's Human Genetics Commission (he's vice chairman); dozens of his children's books (the first success was The Perfect Hamburger); and several saxophones (he plays bassoon, too, in a group called the Really Terrible Orchestra). How does he manage all that? It helps that writer's block has never been a problem. McCall Smith estimates his writing speed at an astonishing 1,000 words an hour. "I'm very lucky," he says. "I don't have to make a great effort." Nor do readers. The books "make a moral point about the importance of courtesy, of trying...
Orfield said he thought the decision in Gratz will be only a temporary stumbling block to affirmative action at large state schools like Michigan, and that the school would find a solution in time for next fall’s applicant pool—though the task will be “costly and difficult...
...administrators from Harvard and Radcliffe hashed out the tenuous merger agreement behind closed doors, the gender restrictions of the Bunting Fellowships became a stumbling block. Harvard administrators worried that the single-sex tradition could expose the Institute to lawsuits under federal gender-equity laws, while Radcliffe administrators thought the addition of men to the mix might disrupt the Bunting’s sense of community...