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...Israeli army's push into the West Bank and Gaza was massive but brief; by Saturday Sharon had withdrawn his forces from most of the West Bank. But few terrorist leaders appear to have been caught or killed. In Ramallah and Tulkarem, Israeli soldiers arrested 100 Palestinians who were on their wanted list but not the main militants, who apparently fled as soon as they heard the tanks outside their refugee camps. An Israeli raid on the sprawling camp in Jabalya turned up at least 10 workshops manufacturing Kassam II rockets, which Hamas has used against Israeli soldiers and civilians...
...brief glimpse into some compelling issues in landscape is provided by two photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto, and a painting by Wayne Thiebaud. For Sugimoto, the landscape is a stark and stripped down depiction of solitude and metaphysical expanse. His black and white photographs contain a palpable sense of isolation and alienation that combine in a deafening silence. The deliberate absence of figures establishes tension between the perceived serenity and implied longing. The elegant simplicity and minimalism is indicative of Sugimoto’s cultural roots in Japanese aesthetics...
Easily able to hold the audience’s attention, she brings them with her on a brief yet circuitous rollercoaster through the hunger pangs of unrequited love...
...consequences for someone. Picketing and disrupting Dershowitz’s class, however, is not the answer. The only route to a good solution is orderly discussion, to which Dershowitz publicly invited the protesters. For me the most significant and meaningful part of yesterday’s events was the brief conversation that I had with one of the protesters after we had both put down our signs. We disagreed about most of the issues, and neither of us persuaded the other to change, but at least we were able to drop our inflammatory rhetoric and discuss our differences openly...
...acknowledge the question with a brief response—“I very strongly believe in the collective accountability,” he said...