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...here and have a violent agenda," says Ziad Majed, deputy president of the opposition Democratic Left. Damascus denied involvement in Kassir's death, but public pressure is mounting on pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud. This week, tens of thousands of protesters plan to converge on the presidential palace to demand that the increasingly isolated Lahoud resign. Kassir would have appreciated the irony that his death could hasten Lahoud's departure...
...Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S. As a European, I couldn't agree more with columnist Klein's position: "There is something fundamentally un-American - and very European - about the Clintons and the Bushes trading the office every eight years, with stale, familiar corps of retainers, supporters and enemies." American democracy demands new faces. Klein also noted that if Hillary runs for President, it would be "a circus, a revisitation of the carnival ugliness that infested public life in the 1990s." I'm afraid that whoever the candidates will be, the campaign will be ugly. In American politics, the parties seem...
...Maronite Christian surgeon. Says Khoury: "After that meeting, we were vocal about our opposition to the Syrians. Rafiq Hariri would not anymore go fifty-fifty with the Syrians." That's the message Hariri had just given Rustum Ghazali, the chief of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon. He rejected Ghazali's demand that pro-Syrian candidates be included on his electoral ticket. "I'm not going to work with people who stab me in the back," Hariri told colleagues...
...attackers hoped to silence the anti-Syrian front that Hariri had built, they were disappointed just seven days later, when 150,000 people descended on Martyrs' Square in Beirut to mourn Hariri, wave Lebanese flags and demand Syria's withdrawal. The blast did, however, have a chilling effect on one group close to Hariri: his family. Days after their father's funeral, Hariri's four sons fled the country following a warning that they might be next. But as the Syrians began pulling out their troops, paving the way for elections, the Hariri clan grew concerned that without its leadership...
...demand increases,” Kirby adds, “we will seek to mobilize opportunities—from Centers and elsewhere—to expand the international experiences open to our students...