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...Fayad didn't need to spell out the rest. Getting the pepper crop to market may have been as important for the Secretary of State as it was for Palestinian farmers: She considers a stable, self-sustaining Palestinian economy a cornerstone of the prospects for achieving peace via Palestinian statehood, and until other industries took root, Gaza's harvest would be a key component of the local economy...
...document commits Israel to permit the immediate export of the pepper crop and the rest of the Gaza harvest "on an urgent basis." By Dec. 15, Israel agreed, Israeli border authorities would process 150 export trucks a day through the Karni commercial crossing into their territory, and by the end of next year, that number would increase to 400 trucks a day. Israel also agreed to allow the movement of bus convoys between Gaza and the West Bank starting Dec. 15, allowing travel between Palestinian territories physically separated by Israel...
...Desirae Clark—who took her team to triple overtime against Harvard in the NCAA quarterfinal—was the national leader in that category and second in save percentage.Maybe this time around things will be different. Maybe offense will dictate the cream of the crop, while goaltending will play its usual role as part of the defensive anchor of a team.Right now there are too many questions—and that’s why they play the game.With the added mystery, there is just one more important question that immediately comes to mind.Why not Harvard this time...
...castrated you," Saluni howls. It's a mammal, he corrects, ineffectually. This improbable triangle ripens gently until its heart-breaking conclusion. Meanwhile, the new, tourism-obsessed, environmentally threatened South Africa festers in the background. A masterpiece of understatement, The Whale Caller is the real winner among this year's crop of South African fiction. What about future vintages? Next year will see new novels by Mark Behr, Patricia Schonstein and other young whites who have made their mark since apartheid's fall. Expect more from Damon Galgut and Pamela Jooste, as well as nonwhite stars like Achmat Dangor, E.K.M. Dido...
...Columbia Records picked up The Go! Team, and “Thunder, Lighting, Strike!” was released across the US last month. IN PARADISEAt the club, singer Ninja’s bouncy, ecstatic dancing and candid on-stage friendliness worked wonders. Wearing a black mini-skirt, tight crop-topped yellow T, and pink headband, Ninja got the audience chanting along to her silly lyrics, “Do, do it, alright,” and her cheerleaders’ call, “Two, four, six, eight, ten!” At one point in the show...