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...investment by the international community in establishing the infrastructure of Palestinian self-rule. Moreover, he suggested, it is sure to plunge Palestinian society deeper into the vortex of poverty - which would make it more fertile ground for just the brand of Islamist extremism that the U.S. is trying to defeat...
...dispute over these islets dates to 1900, when Korea formally declared them as its own. Five years later, the Japanese countered by claiming them as well. In 1910, Japan annexed mainland Korea, making it a Japanese colony for the next 35 years. In the aftermath of Japan's defeat in World War II, the Treaty of San Francisco did not mention the islands in the list of surrendered Japanese territories-a fact that the Japanese use to bolster claims that the islands are still theirs. But in 1952, Seoul declared that the islets were within Korea's borders and ordered...
SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italian Prime Minister, who indicated plans to step down this week after having refused to concede his April 10 defeat to Romano Prodi, following the closest election in modern Italian history...
...instead for restoring old buildings, creating new ones of similar scale and mixing residents and merchants in a happily messy universe of neighborhoods. During a 12-year battle with powerful city planner Robert Moses, whose bid to build a highway through her former neighborhood of lower Manhattan she helped defeat, Jacobs was arrested for storming the podium at a hearing. She said, "We had been ladies and gentlemen and only got pushed around...
...captain Ashley Antony said. “[As a result], we didn’t race as we can and should have.”It was not a total disappointment for the lightweight squad, as the team only lost by that three-second margin while racing poorly. The defeat also gives Radcliffe extra motivation for Eastern Sprints in two weeks—it is a wake-up call to get the team re-focused.“Princeton raced really well, but that race is not indicative of the speed we can have,” Antony said...