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...Beach, California, U.S. Tall Order for Abbas In his "Letter from Gaza," Matt Rees referred to the "culture of waste and corruption that ruined the Palestinian economy under Arafat" [Jan. 10]. I don't think that ruin can be laid solely at Yasser Arafat's door. How about the brutal invasion of Palestinian towns and villages by the Israeli army that prevented travel, trade and education, and physically destroyed the Palestinian Authority? And what of the separation wall, which is destroying the livelihoods of many Palestinians by isolating them from their fields, towns and markets? I doubt that Mahmoud Abbas...
...Communist Party in 1938 and eventually rose to be its General Secretary, a leader fondly remembered by many Chinese. Peasants in Sichuan used to say, "Yao chi liang, Zhao Ziyang," a rhyming pun that means, roughly, "If you want to eat, look for Zhao." After trying to prevent the brutal Tiananmen crackdown, he was purged and placed under house arrest, where he remained for the rest of his life...
...being mentioned in the same breath as brutal dictators on television, Summers was finding unlikely—and, for him, surely unwanted—friends on the radio waves...
...this brutal Cambridge winter, local ice cream shops say the chill in sales is starting to burn...
...same-store sales for the third quarter, and warned that factors such as weak Christmas sales meant profits for the year could be as much as $140 million lower than analysts expected. French retail giant Carrefour has been slashing prices to regain market share after a brutal 2004, during which sales at its flagship hypermarkets dropped by 2.6%. And German chain KarstadtQuelle, which already plans to sell 77 of its 181 department stores, posted 9.5% lower sales in the fourth quarter. From all the gloomy news, you might think Europe has stopped shopping. But that's not the problem; these...