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...crisis on a deliberate plan by Sharon to "topple Arafat, reenter areas under PA control and annex large swathes of the West Bank." Editor Ebrahim Nafie warns that bombing PA buildings makes it impossible for Arafat to implement a crackdown on terror suspects and forge an anti-terrorism consensus among Palestinians. He berates Washington's support Sharon, but has harsh words for Hamas, too: "As religious and political leaders throughout the Arab world have repeatedly stressed, the murder of civilians is an abomination. Such acts serve only to tarnish the Palestinian cause and furnish Sharon with the excuse to confuse...
...Business inventories, meanwhile, duly presented their own paradox. They fell in October (for the ninth consecutive month) by 1.4 percent, an all-time record for the stat and twice as much as the consensus forecast expected. Now remember that this was October, a fairly long time ago - should we be pleased that inventories were continuing to be cleansed, to make way for new capital investments, new production and new profits? Or do we get disappointed that those businesses hadn't gotten out of the cleaning phase...
...nice warm feeling of a Washington stimulus package - word of a brewing deal Tuesday morning helped the pre-Fed trading - but Wall Street's winter will be determined by fourth-quarter-earnings pre-announcements and the daily thrum of economics reports that will have to reach a good-news consensus soon if the rally is going to avoid a major breather...
...Consensus seems unlikely in the near future. For the best part of a year, a European Parliament committee has been holding hearings to establish a framework for cloning research. Last week, a resolution went before the Parliament that called for a moratorium on therapeutic cloning. But in the end - after 400 amendments, some of which contradicted each other - not even the resolution's originator could support...
...consensus can be reached, there is only one other choice. The University must purchase the only other campus-like land nearby—Lesley University...