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...aside" plan drawn up by the city of Richmond that requires city contractors to subcontract 30% of the dollar value of their contracts to minority firms. One of the main issues is whether Richmond can impose such a plan if there is no evidence that the city itself has ever discriminated. Invalidating the plan could jeopardize similar set-aside arrangements around the country. In another case, Martin v. Wilks, the Justices will consider whether white fire fighters can challenge an affirmative-action scheme reached through an agreement between blacks and the city of Birmingham that was approved without the whites...
...Shimon Peres and Likud's Yitzhak Shamir have defined the election in terms of peace and the Palestinians, but neither candidate offers any plausible solutions. Says Abed Darawshe, who defected from Labor to protest the government's handling of the uprising: "The intifadeh ((uprising)) has divided Israel more than ever. The two big parties simply have not convinced the public that they have the answer...
...reality the river's final moments, and indeed much of its progressively arthritic journey toward the sea, are as fittingly equivocal as ) the relationship between the two countries and cultures it bisects. That became ever more apparent during the four weeks I spent following the river westward and, then, when it turns north to New Mexico, keeping as close as possible to the 258 white obelisks that mark the remaining 750 miles of the border from El Paso to the California coast. There is fusion, especially where the two countries meet. But the region is also a fault line where...
...fringe parties are likely to enter the Knesset, but their presence in the campaign forces Likud to veer farther right and Labor farther left. And any party that wins just 1% of the vote -- a mere 17,000 ballots -- is guaranteed a seat. Since neither Labor nor Likud has ever won more than 56 seats in the parliament, the splinter groups wield enormous power when it comes time to form a government...
...head west to El Paso the next day, I think about why these dances are so rare and why both sides seem to misunderstand each other so deeply. "Neither of us ever hears what the other is saying," Octavio Paz once wrote. "Or if we do hear, we always think the other was saying something else." The roots of the two cultures are so deep and gnarled by time that it is not just language that cuts a deep scar across the continent...