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That explains how former Green Party gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Carter stunned the Establishment by gathering 58,000 signatures in favor of a total ban on clear-cutting--enough to place the issue on the Nov. 5 ballot as a referendum. Voters will decide if they want to halt the practice outright, reduce it or do nothing...
Above all, the Palestinians need to realize that violence will only damage if not halt the peace process. When the Palestinians take an inconsequential gesture as an excuse to intitiate bloody conflict, any prospect of peace is put in jeopardy. --Miriam B. Goldstein '99 Dov. P. Grossman '97 Michael I. Sugarman...
Perhaps some wonder if there is anything we can do to halt the spread of this political disaster or, more importantly, to restrict the hegemony of the countries that have already wandered down that dark path. The events of the last month should have taught us that there...
Cold war dramas are an anachronism in most of the world today. Not so in Korea. The Seoul government quickly labeled the landing "an act of military provocation" and demanded that the North call a halt to violations of the armistice agreement that ended the war in 1953. The DMZ is the world's most heavily armed border, and probably the tensest. With North Korea mired in famine and economic stagnation, there is considerable apprehension among its neighbors that the Stalinist government in Pyongyang might seek a solution in a desperate attack on the South...
...Graham picked Jones up at 10:30 p.m. for what she thought was a date. Zamora lurked in the trunk, tilting the rear seat forward just enough to see Graham behind the wheel. After the car slowed to a halt on a lonely road near the lake, he motioned to Zamora, who clambered into the passenger compartment screaming at Jones. Graham lunged to try to break Jones' neck with a twisting motion. "I realized too late that all those quick, painless snaps seen in the movies," he wrote in a self-typed confession obtained by the Dallas Morning News, "were...