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...towns just as well as in Tel Aviv. Under the slabs of fallen masonry in Jenin is a new legend of martyrdom and heroism, one that will be used in years to come to stiffen the sinews of those who would fight against Israeli rule: mailed fist met by defiant resistance. Written in the twisted metal and crushed cinder block of Jenin is the new reality of an old conflict with no end in sight. This is how it happened...
MIDDLE EAST Arafat Emerges, Defiant, amid the Rubble Israel lifted its siege of Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah, but tensions remained high outside Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity. Playing down the damage to his compound, Arafat angrily denounced the Israelis for a "big crime" against a "sacred place" after fighting and fire broke out at the church, where Israel was demanding the surrender of dozens of Palestinian fighters. He also condemned Israel's assault on the Jenin refugee camp, the deaths of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and infrastructure damage. The Palestinian leader later toured Ramallah...
...both ends of Saturday’s twin-bill against Princeton, the Crimson shook off the sting of crooked, late-inning deficits and staged defiant, last-chance rallies to pull close. After the first game’s rally fell short in a controversial 4-3 defeat, the pressure was on with a 4-2 seventh-inning hole in the second game. But Harvard showed no signs of anxiety in stringing together four straight hits to cut the deficit in half and load the bases...
...after struggling to quell the protests of a defiant anti-war group at Harvard, Monro pulled Epps aside and said that his mind...
...Arafat remained defiant, vowing never to surrender and inviting Israel to martyr him. His fight, he said, would be carried forward by Palestinian children. And even as he made this vow, a teenage girl from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade blew herself up in a Jerusalem supermarket, taking two Israelis with her. Elsewhere, an Islamic Jihad militant killed two Israelis in the Gaza settlement of Netzarim, and four more died at the hands of a Hamas gunman who infiltrated the West Bank settlement of Eilon Moreh. At least four Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli incursion into Ramallah...