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...upon the Israeli soldiers trying to remove them," says a high-ranking Administration official. A far more serious concern is what the Palestinians will do when the Israelis depart. "The pictures of the evacuation will be hard enough for most Israelis to swallow," says Shai Feldman, an Israeli security expert at Brandeis University. "But if we also see Palestinians looting and destroying the settlements, and dancing on the rooftops-as they did when we left southern Lebanon-then it will be near impossible to resume negotiations on a final peace settlement." Worse, if Palestinian radicals fire rockets at the Israeli...
When Hirsch came on board last November, he knew exactly what the museum had in mind in hiring him: with seven years experience in booking indie and experimental concerts, he is an expert at attracting cutting-edge, intellectual music to shows. In 2001, Hirsch co-founded Non-Event, a promotional entity that brings experimental and electronic music to Boston audiences, and this eye for contemporary music epitomized the museum’s hopes for in its new concert organizer...
Yesterday’s announcement did not appear to deflate PetroChina’s share price, which closed down 50 cents at $64.26. But Eric Reeves, a Smith College professor and expert on Sudan, said he thinks the decision will have a “significant effect” on PetroChina’s share price in the long...
...India is already a major country," said Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei last week, when asked about the American briefings. Sun Shihai remarked: "If the Bush Administration's partnership with India fosters peace and security in the region, then China will welcome it." And Yan Xuetong, a foreign-relations expert at Tsinghua University, made the obvious?but accurate?point that "being a powerful country is something that only India can do for itself ... the U.S. is not in the business of creating other superpowers...
...something far worse: the possibility of being kidnapped and sold to a local warlord who fancies young boys. In Afghanistan, where a premium is placed on women's honor and chastity, young boys are often considered fair game for sex. Indeed, according to Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani author and expert on the Taliban's rise, the religious movement, with its strict emphasis on law and order, started in the early 1990s after a drunken commander picked up one of Mullah Mohammed Omar's young seminarians and performed a mock, public wedding with the youth. After the abused student staggered back...