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...White House still has some muscle with the Israelis, it has less and less with the Palestinians. Washington pressed Abu Ala to appoint an emergency Cabinet that would take control of the Palestinian security apparatus and crack down on Hamas and other radical groups, but Abu Ala backed down under pressure from Arafat and others. Some in the Administration wondered whether the new Prime Minister was already compromised. "The U.S. has made it pretty clear," says this official, "that we won't support someone who is the voice of Yasser Arafat...
...side of the conflict had had much faith that Hamas would stick to the cease-fire it declared in June. But the newest attacks--and the Israeli Cabinet's decision to expel Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat "in a manner, and at a time, of its choosing" for failing to crack down on terrorism--raised the specter of a return to all-out war between Israelis and Palestinians...
...same restrictions on trainers and stable staff. The riders have demanded that independent mediators review the situation, otherwise they will go to court. Martin Cruddace, lawyer for 110 of the jockeys, says the phone ban infringes their human rights. The Jockey Club, he says, has taken a sledgehammer to crack a nut: "They have admitted that 99.9% of jockeys are honest, so why are they regulating for 0.1%?" The Jockey Club, though, are adamant that some kind of ban must go through. Before the sides reach the finishing post they'll have to talk. They should probably keep their mobiles...
Harvard students will no longer have to wake up at the crack of dawn and brave frigid temperatures to publicize their groups’ performances and activities...
...wide open for a let's-get-out-of-this-mess challenge to the President. Happily, none of the major Democrats chose to walk through that utterly irresponsible door last week, but Dean--who is on the record as favoring more American troops and more money--opened it a crack. "If we need more troops, they are going to be foreign troops," the former Governor said, changing his position and glancing warily over at Kucinich, who hopes to dent Dean's support in the peaceable kingdom of Iowa. "Ours need to come home...