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...weeks ago, Sharon privately told a U.S. visitor that he liked Abbas, though he added that he hadn't yet seen any attempt by the new Palestinian chief to rein in the terrorist groups. Sharon's bottom line for a return to peace talks is for Abbas to confront the Islamists of Hamas and the gunmen of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and halt the rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip. The persistence of such attacks may jeopardize Sharon's plans to evacuate all Israeli settlers from Gaza as early as this summer, which...
...schools, 85% of teachers demonstrated that they had little idea how to resolve a bullying problem: the best solution, they said, was to bring together perpetrator and victim. Bad move, says Michal Kolar, chairman of the Prague-based Society Against Bullying, who describes that technique as like "trying to confront a cobra with a mouse." Instead, he says, teachers should isolate the victim from the oppressor...
...with its damaged security infrastructure, to dismantle militant factions by force, we find Abbas’ approach promising. Through a negotiated cease-fire with Palestinian militants, Abbas can buy time until prospects of a concrete peace plan with Israel emerge and until the Palestinian Authority attains enough power to confront militants head-on. Such steps are needed to avoid a Palestinian civil war, and Abbas’ approach, while imperfect, deserves a chance...
...rich countries continue with business as usual, responding generously to the current disaster but failing to address the dire underlying situation of the world's poor, the world will repeatedly confront the tragic arithmetic of life and death. This is not merely a sound forecast based on the likelihood of future earthquakes, droughts, floods, landslides and epidemic diseases. It also reflects the grim fact that life-and-death disasters of the poor are with us every...
George’s crowning accomplishment is that he forces his American viewers to finally confront the Rwandan reality. He gives his audience a bit of a free pass by choosing to tone down the most jarring imagery. “You couldn’t replicate what took place in this particular slaughter, because most of it was by machete and was brutal, primitive killing,” he says...