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...Ariel Sharon snaked the fence into the West Bank to incorporate Israeli settlements and to take advantage of more easily defensible topography. The fence is already 165 km long; work is under way on a new section around Jerusalem and south to Hebron, and there are plans for an eastern fence probably along the heights above the Jordan Valley. Palestinians charge that the route cuts villages off from their fields and hems in some communities between the Israeli border and the fence, the gates of which are often shut for days. Any challenge to the fence angers Israeli government officials...
...libation-loving French got sobering news about the consequences of drinking and driving. An appeals court in the eastern city of Nancy late last month upheld criminal charges against a couple who failed to prevent a drunken dinner guest from driving home - he killed himself and a family of four by heading down a nearby freeway in the wrong direction. The tribunal ordered Angélique, 28, and Jean-Sébastien, 30 - known only by their first names - to stand trial for "non-prevention of a crime or misdemeanor that causes bodily harm" after allowing...
...Combat snobbery" was a term used to define the British attitude; it also applied to America's new German allies when the Federal Republic joined NATO in 1955. The German veterans who had fought in the great tank battles against the Russians on the eastern front made it plain that they doubted the ability of America's postwar army to check a Soviet offensive if the cold war ever became hot. The Germans, like the British before them, pointed to American reliance on firepower and air cover, an expectation of overgenerous supply of materials, as reasons to question...
...employ fewer than 50 people - yet they still make up 53% of the labor market. Despite Lenoir's major gripes with France's labor strictures and tax regimes, he says he's willing to wait on French reform instead of defecting to friendlier business environments in the U.K. or Eastern Europe. In addition to exempting businesses with 20 employees or fewer from the 35-hour week, France's conservative government is considering measures to lighten corporate taxes and allow companies to hire and fire with greater freedom. It's also examining calls to partially shift financing of some programs - such...
...although Graham matriculated at the University of North Carolina, the Middle Eastern studies scholar and longtime FAS professor is no stranger to Harvard’s undergraduate life...