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...Israeli ideas on the future sovereignty over the Holy City. And the religious passion fueling that rejection - "jihad" (holy war) is the explanation most commonly cited by Palestinian demonstrators to explain their actions - will make it exceedingly difficult even for Arafat to bring them to a halt. Not that he'll be in any hurry to: The violence has graphically underlined his point that the Palestinians, too, have red lines on Jerusalem over which they can't be pushed, and has prompted the very Arab governments on whom Washington had been relying to help pressure Arafat into a deal...
...things happening at once [in the 1970s]," he says. "It was the era of boundless expansion and rising stock markets came to a shuddering halt. That increased the financial burdens; you're desperately trying to keep money. The other thing, of course, was there was a great deal of student unrest...
While the legal wrangling with the Pudding building is just beginning, negotiations between Harvard and the institute about the transfer of ownership have all but come to a halt...
Global warming is only one among many problems suffered by our planet. Unless we find a way to halt the out-of-control overpopulation of the earth, we are doomed. We are rich and wasteful, yes, but there are far too many of us, and the situation is getting worse each day. DOMINIQUE HUDELOT Vankleek Hill...
...halt its Hooters/Toy Story 3 tie-in b) ban ads for R-rated movies on ABC until after 9 p.m. c) ask Goofy to send out subliminal messages...