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...firm, the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center, put Fatah and Hamas in a dead heat, with Fatah taking 32 percent of the vote and Hamas taking 30 percent.Blanc said that the political situation in the two weeks has calmed considerably, despite Hamas’s participation and the political fallout from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s debilitating stroke on Jan. 4.“At the beginning of the month, things seemed to be deteriorating and we were quite worried,” Blanc said. “But after Eid in the middle of January, President...
...EDWARD HALLOWELL, A PSYCHIATRIST in Sudbury, Mass., has seen the fallout of multitasking mania: it walks through his door five days a week. Over the past decade, he says, he has seen a tenfold rise in the number of patients showing up with symptoms that closely resemble those of attention-deficit disorder (ADD), but of a work-induced variety. "They complained that they were more irritable than they wanted to be," he says. "Their productivity was declining. They couldn't get organized. They were making decisions in black-and-white, shoot-from-the-hip ways rather than giving things adequate...
...departure is sure to set off not just a fight for his old job but also some ugly score settling. No wonder House Speaker Dennis Hastert canceled a trip to Asia he had planned for this week so that he could return to Washington, begin sifting through the fallout and start planning for leadership elections the week...
This much you can count on: the fallout from exposure of the NSA surveillance program will be with us for months to come. Republican Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has already announced his intention to start hearings this month to find out just what the NSA is up to and whether acting without warrants was really necessary. In addition, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees are almost certain to make deeper inquiries. Meanwhile, the Justice Department is launching an investigation of its own, into how word of the secret program was leaked to the Times. Justice officials...
...only the fourth female and second African-American ever to serve, Harper being the first. Furthermore, having been a professor for over 30 years, she also brings with her the viewpoint of a faculty member, an important perspective for the Corporation to consider after last spring’s fallout between Summers and members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. King’s academic background will provide her with different perspectives from the rest of the board—made up of Summers, four members of the economics and business world, and a former university president. In particular...