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...doubt inevitable, but that only made it more depressing. A Palestinian suicide bomber shattered the region?s three-month period of calm Friday night by killing four Israelis and injuring 50 outside a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub. The bomber, a 21-year-old student from a village near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, was the first since the November death of Yasser Arafat; he hoped to destroy the tenuous trust that took root at a Feb. 8 peace summit in Egypt. To keep him from succeeding, Palestinian security forces - which in the last four years have done little...
DIED. ULI DERICKSON, 60, flight attendant for T.W.A. whose courage and calm determination saved lives when Lebanese gunmen hijacked Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome on June 14, 1985, and held the plane in Beirut for 17 days, killing one; of cancer; in Tucson, Ariz. Taking charge, Derickson soothed a gunman by singing a German ballad he requested, intervened to stop the beatings of passengers and used her Shell credit card to pay $5,500 for the plane's refueling...
...while Summers had a reputation for being outspoken and temperamental—one of Harvard’s most powerful alums called three search committee members to calm worries about his character—Bollinger was “diplomatic” and “soft-spoken,” St. Antoine says. “Everyone has the sense that he has paid attention to them...
...calm has followed last Tuesday’s storm amongst the faculty...
This weekend was the calm before the storm for the Harvard track and field teams...