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Dawn Lee '01, an East Asian Studies concentrator in Leverett House, is interning at MSNBC Interactive this summer...
...prime minister, Ehud Barak, almost six hours of one-on-one face time Thursday, plus an intimate double-date dinner and sleepover at Camp David ?- and he didn?t even have to make a campaign contribution. Why the elaborate courtship? The President badly needs a durable Middle East settlement to crown his legacy, and Barak is the first Israeli leader since Yitzhak Rabin who seems able to deliver. Clinton was never comfortable dragging Benjamin Netanyahu kicking and screaming into land-for-peace agreements, and he?ll welcome Barak?s intention to energetically pursue the process himself...
...government is cooperating with the private sector to develop ventures that will maintain South Africa's position as a world leader in wildlife and environmental conservation. For dedicated and affluent wild-animal watchers, the $40 million Cape Wildlife Reserve, with more than 60,000 acres of the Klein Karoo, east of Cape Town, will open in January 2000. The luxury game reserve, which will include executive lodges, a resort and a conference center, is reintroducing Africa's popular Big Five--elephants, buffalo, rhinos, lions and leopards--from overstocked game parks elsewhere in the country to the Western Cape, where they...
...will take more than dogged police work to deal with the terrorist threat to the United States. Two Egyptian nationals appeared in a London courtroom Monday to face extradition proceedings brought by the U.S. for their alleged role in last year?s bomb attacks on U.S. embassies in East Africa. Ibrahim Hussein Abdel Hadi Eidarous, 42, and Adel Mohamed Abdul Almagid Bary, 39, who are accused of transmitting faxes claiming responsibility for the blast, bring the total number of suspects in the attack currently in custody to eight, with a further six still at large. Bin Laden himself is currently...
...perception that injustices are being committed against Arabs and Muslims." That perception gives Bin Laden a steady supply of funds and recruits, despite U.S. attempts to put the squeeze on his international network. "To deal effectively with terrorism," says Dowell, "it?s also important to revive an effective Middle East process, for example, to counter the perception of injustice and the fertile ground it creates for Bin Laden...