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Bush has spent his presidency avoiding Bill Clinton's policy of hands-on, round-the-clock engagement in the Middle East, instead allowing the adversaries to settle scores for themselves. But with the death toll now past 1,500--higher than that of the first intifadeh, which lasted from 1987 until 1993--U.S. intervention has become a strategic necessity. The conflict threatens to derail the Administration's plans to open the next phase in the war on terror--in particular, its desire to take on Iraq. If Bush were to allow the escalating combat between the Israelis and the Palestinians...
...late 1998, a moving company interrupted the production line and began unbolting machinery from the floor. The workers drove out the intruders, guarded the premises around the clock and began looking around for help. Some went to the Worker's Cultural Palace Park, a recreation center built for the proletariat during the heyday of communism. Today it's a gathering place for angry, unemployed laborers. A dozen workers volunteered to help occupy Wang's factory...
...impassioned about the power of ideas and their potential for improving the condition for the world’s poor that he literally works around the clock,” said John W. McArthur, who is Sachs’ chief research fellow. “What makes him unique is his capacity to combine intellect with enthusiasm for the public good...
...Crimson shut down the rest of the Stags players and barely flinched at the end. Packard helped on several good clears late in the game, and the stickwork of junior midfielder Doug Logigian enabled the Crimson to run out the clock. Wich had a goal with 2:43 left for the final Crimson tally...
...Lord, the glory of busking lies in the artistic freedom it affords her. “When you’re in the studio, you’re always looking at the clock, and on a stage I’ve never felt completely comfortable,” she says. She attributes her uneasiness on stage to the pressure she feels to please pre-paying customers. “I don’t want to have to do shit for them,” she says. “I’d rather play and then have them...