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...former Turkish president Suleiman Demirel and Norwegian foreign minister Thorbjorn Jagland aren't about to don flak jackets and head into the battle zone - but the commission's priorities appear to be more diplomatic than investigative. Mitchell's team has spent the last two days meeting with Israeli, Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian leaders, searching for solutions that will reduce the level of violence...
KIDS LOVE: Egyptian mummies and Frederic Church's painting Icebergs. Dole takes his kids to the sculpture garden to see Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's Stake Hitch, "so they can touch and feel the artwork...
Working as an Egyptian immigrant in a predominantly white suburb, Lola took care to invite newcomers to sit at the counter with her regular customers. Her deli is the only spot in town where business executives would mix with construction workers. When her brain tumor confined her to a wheelchair, she keep working, and the customers kept coming, choosing to make their own sandwiches rather than go elsewhere...
...Wednesday with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and implored him to reverse Cairo's decision to recall its ambassador from Israel. But having made the dramatic diplomatic gesture in protest against Israel's bombardment of Gaza Monday night in retaliation for the bombing of a school bus, the Egyptian leader can't very easily reverse it now - not even under pressure from the U.S., which pays Egypt some $2 billion a year to be Israel's friend. Egypt's move, which caused shock and consternation in Israeli political circles, was echoed Wednesday by Jordan, which announced that its new ambassador...
...seen intensifying street demonstrations and clashes with police since the current Palestinian uprising began, with ordinary citizens demanding that their governments take a tougher stand against the Jewish state. While neither state is entirely democratic, they are ultimately forced to take account of public sentiment - indeed, last week's Egyptian election saw candidates backed by an outlawed Islamist party gain 17 seats from the government, despite the government's best efforts to harass them and their supporters...