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...What worries the refugees as much as Sharon, though, is a growing consensus in Lebanon that they must leave. The 2 million refugees in Syria and Jordan are seen as less of a problem because they have been granted more employment rights, citizenship or both. But Lebanon has always been far less hospitable, imposing regulations that prevent refugees from working in some 60 professions, lest they become rooted in the country. The refugees associate Sharon with the massacre, even though it was carried out by Israel-allied Lebanese Christians who had long fought Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. Christian fears...
...market to make them look like suckers. In January, Time forecast a relatively sunny outlook for European investors. Although the mercurial U.S. economy was already clearly in trouble, Europe seemed to be on course for sustained moderate, healthy growth. Actually, that still appears true. Economists surveyed by London's Consensus Economics are predicting that U.S. gross domestic product will grow less than 2% in 2001 - down from a blistering 5% last year - but they expect European Union economies to expand by roughly 2.6%, off only slightly from last year's 3.2%. But try telling that to investors: last week Europe...
...saying for some years - that comprehensive sanctions are hurting ordinary Iraqis but are not helping overthrow Saddam, and that they're giving him ammunition for his propaganda war. The position that economic sanctions that hurt the people rather than the regime should be lifted will be a point of consensus between mainstream Arab opinion and the U.S. But a crucial test remains to what extent Syria and Jordan will continue to tolerate smuggling, because right now Arab economies are hurting and there's competition to be the main conduit for smuggling to Iraq...
...With the doors to the White House now apparently closed to them, U.S. environmentalists are now pinning their hopes that European heads of state will be able to educate Bush about the scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, and that the problem may reach catastrophic levels by the end of the century. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who is visiting Washington this week, has put climate change in the second spot on his agenda for discussions with Bush, following the conflict in Macedonia...
...because of something that "Christian fundamentalists" were accused of doing? I refer to the aftermath of the infamous Oklahoma City bombing of 1995. The American media, ever anxious to find a scapegoat in the Muslim world, declared that the bombing had the "hallmarks" of Islamic terrorism. This was the consensus of "experts." In the three days following the Oklahoma City bombing, there were 220 documented hate crimes against Muslims throughout the nation. Until it was shown that the bombing was concocted and carried out by homegrown white American boys, Muslims were harassed, taunted and beaten. So strong is the link...