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...tough position. His promise of a cease-fire raises expectations that he will rein in his own gunmen and jail Islamic terrorists. But the mood among Palestinians is unforgiving, and Arafat will find it hard to justify arrests when most Palestinians favor more attacks against Israelis. Sharon promises to defend Israeli citizens, and his Cabinet ministers talk darkly of "removing the immunity" of senior Palestinian Authority officials. With almost 600 people dead in the eight-month Aqsa intifadeh, no one expects the youngsters at the Dolphinarium to be the last to pay the price for peace's ever worsening failure...
...Nonetheless, Israel is still essentially demanding that the Palestinian Authority defend the Jewish State from Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The PA has been targeted in retaliation for terror strikes precisely because it released prisoners from those organizations when the intifada began. And Sharon is making the cease-fire conditional on Arafat re-arresting them...
...Crimson's first task as a team was in the fall when it hosted the ECAC tournament, looking to defend its title in the 16-team field. After beating Colgate and Army in the opening rounds, Harvard stumbled in singles play against Princeton, who went on to win the title...
Because the Lisbon trip conflicted with the NCAA Indoors, Gyorffy was unable to defend her title, leaving the door open for someone else to win. That winner happened to be Harvard sophomore Kart Siilats, an Estonian transfer student. Siilats won the title in dramatic fashion, clearing the winning height of 1.86 meters while facing elimination...
...investigate global warming, and the Academy's panel reported that - contra President Bush's campaign claim that the science of global warming was inconclusive - the planet is indeed getting warmer as a result of human activities. The President travels to Europe next week, where he'll have to defend his administration's stance on global warming and the Kyoto treaty. Where does the Academy's study leave...