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...asked my approval as if I were somehow in any position to question her authority over any aspect of our ride together. Had she slowed the motorcycle to a halt in the middle of the freeway and asked me to step off and perform the closing routine from her favorite Broadway musical for the amusement of all passersby, I would have instantly obliged...
...says. So far at least, labor has been racking up all the points on the political scorecard. On April 16, the three largest unions led the first full-day general strike in Italy since 1982, bringing much of the country's industrial, commercial and transportation sectors to a halt. That followed a March rally that drew more than a million protesters to Rome to decry the threat to Article 18. Bruno - who has also worked in a pizzeria and as a handyman - is one of the millions of laborers not protected by Article 18. "It doesn't change anything...
...Rwanda, a special U.N. tribunal set up to punish those responsible for the ethnically-motivated massacres in Rwanda in 1994. In another U.N. war crimes trial, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has taken a similar strategy of obstructionism. He delays his trial with each of his attempts to halt the proceedings. The problems of these tribunals are likely to plague the newly-ratified International Criminal Court (ICC) in its pursuit of war criminals...
With the Arab street boiling and U.S.'s own war on terrorism hanging in the balance, the White House realizes it needs to intervene more aggressively to halt the violence. The situation has become so desperate that this unilateralist Administration is preparing to ask the rest of the world for help. A senior State Department official confirmed to TIME several elements under consideration as part of a deal to achieve a cease-fire, Israeli troop withdrawal and the start of political negotiations. The official said that Powell has been pressing Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab states for their ideas...
Israel's capture of Jenin was never in doubt. It will go some way toward sating Israeli hunger for revenge after the suicide attacks. But it isn't likely to halt the attacks. In Palestinian minds, Jenin will forever be a heroic stand, a Middle East Stalingrad...