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...linked to the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, a group responsible for innumerable attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians. In the lobby, the custodian keeps a Karl Gustav machine gun in his desk drawer. Two of the girls in Qawasmeh's school have been injured in the fighting that broke out 1 1/2 years ago. Shireen Rajabi, 8, has a scar above her right eyebrow; she says a soldier hit her with his rifle butt at a checkpoint...
...Someone had perfumed the boy's body, but she believed his sweet smell was, she later said, "a sign of Abdullah's acceptance by Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, who applies the scent of paradise." Recalling that Abdullah had still been fasting when he died, she says, "He broke his fast with Allah." The boy's family filed a suit against the Palestinian police, but Franji has no hope of justice in Arafat's corrupt legal system. Her comfort is the scent of paradise. --With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Hebron and Aharon Klein/Tel Aviv
...sought the dignity of an ordinary life but lost even low-paying jobs when her past surfaced. "Every time someone watches that film," she said in 1983 hearings for an antipornography civil rights law she inspired, "they are watching me being raped." But survivors of sexual abuse everywhere broke silence because she had. From forced "sex freak of the '70s," she became a beacon of resistance and hope?and changed the debate on pornography forever. Brave, gentle, miraculously resilient and valiant beyond words, Linda never accepted that her violation was constitutionally protected as was her violators' speech. "Why," she asked...
...approaching it for protection were to be allowed safety. The actions of the Quraysh were in clear violation of recognized rights and responsibilities, both under customary tribal law, and under the Treaty of Hudaybiyah. Clearly, it was not the Prophet who unilaterally abrogated the treaty, but the Quraysh who broke...
...many new businesses have been started in the former East Germany. The last strike by IG Metall was in 1995 and affected only workers in prosperous Bavaria for three weeks. What's so unusual about this year's negotiations is that the two sides were remarkably close when talks broke down. Employers had offered a 3.3% pay rise over 15 months; the union demanded 4% for this year. Putting heat on the metalworkers, the chemical workers' union two weeks ago agreed to a 3.3% increase. The companies, said Martin Kannegiesser, the employers' association president, have gone "to the limit...