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...strictly private negotiations, there is really no point in striking dramatic poses and demanding the impossible. So in recent communications with the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat didn't do any posturing and didn't ask Netanyahu to cancel his plan to build Har Homa, a new Jewish settlement in mostly Arab East Jerusalem. Instead, Arafat settled for the art of the possible: he requested that Netanyahu put the project on hold, maybe for six months or so, to allow Palestinian and Israeli negotiators to nudge the stymied peace process forward. Earlier this month...
Whitla, who had consulted an advance copy of the Guide in order to predict course enrollment, threatened to cancel the book and fire the staff if the criticisms were not omitted, Okun said...
...thought. Yet, for once, Iranians had been offered a real choice, not a stage-managed election rigged for a handpicked President. No politician symbolized the hold of the incumbent clerics more than Nateq-Noori. His supporters provoked widespread anger by physically breaking up a Khatami speech, getting police to cancel a major rally and using a technicality to close down Khatami's election headquarters in the last week of campaigning. Nateq-Noori was the candidate of a militant Islamic front combining the conservative mullahs of the holy city of Qum and the middle-class traders of the Tehran bazaar...
...situation is urgent, says Procter Hug Jr., chief judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers California and eight other Western states. Hug says that with a third of its 28 seats vacant, the court has had to cancel hearings for about 600 cases this year. Criminal cases take precedence by law, so at both the trial and appellate levels, it is civil cases that have been crowded out. Civil rights cases, shareholder lawsuits, product-liability actions, medical-malpractice claims and so forth are being pushed to the back of the line, however urgent the complaints. Chief Judge...
...spared having to defend that as well as his salary and Mike Ovitz's lavish payout. "When Disney or ABC were worried about boycotts or this or that, I kept saying to everybody, 'I'm the one who's going to get the biggest boycott,'" says DeGeneres. "'You can cancel the show, you can go and make another one. It's not going to hurt you. I'm the product here...