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Both the Israelis and the Palestinians need more than President Bush's demands or Colin Powell's briefcase full of ideas to halt their barbaric war [WORLD, April 22]. They need realistic incentives. Powell blew a golden opportunity to provide them by not solidly supporting the Saudi peace proposal during his recent tour of the Middle East. This proposal offers incentives for everyone. The Palestinians would get their sovereign state. Israel would get peace with the Palestinians and Arab neighbors. The Arab states would get a reduction in the threats to their internal stability fueled by popular sympathy...
...designer fashion stores left town, and magazines ran pictures of empty shopping malls. Such recovery as Asia saw in the late '90s was almost exclusively explained by an increase in net exports, helped along by newly devalued currencies. So when the growth in world trade screeched to a halt at the end of 2000, so did the Asian recovery...
During a month-long process beginning in early June, the libraries will install the program that runs the new catalog system. They will halt the entering of books and serials into the library’s integrated electronic system—but users will still be able to access the Harvard OnLine Library Information System (HOLLIS...
...designer fashion stores left town, and magazines ran pictures of empty shopping malls. Such recovery as Asia saw in the late '90s was almost exclusively explained by an increase in net exports, helped along by newly devalued currencies. So when the growth in world trade screeched to a halt at the end of 2000, so did the Asian recovery...
...years U.S. counterterrorism officials have considered Palestinian-extremist attacks on U.S. soil unlikely for one key reason: many Palestinians have viewed the U.S. as their best hope for pressuring Israel to halt its military drive into their territories. But in recent weeks, some investigators have quietly shifted away from the assumption that the U.S. is exempt from the kind of suicide bombings that have rocked Israel. "If the frustration continues to grow and we keep meeting with lack of success, what's going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back?" asks a senior official who until recently...