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...early Thursday in Paris. But consensus over the way forward will remain as elusive as it has been for the past decade. It is a measure of Arafat?s unique status as a national symbol that despite that absence of consensus, Palestinian leaders ranging from moderate liberals such as Hanan Ashrawi to the hard-eyed bombers of Hamas have concurred on the role of the aging revolutionary, who spent his last three years living under virtual house arrest at the Ramallah compound where his organization now plans to inter his remains, as the symbolic personification of their national aspirations. Responding...
Palestinian advocate Hanan Ashrawi criticized the policies of the Israeli and U.S. governments, condemned the use of terror tactics, and reiterated her support for a negotiated solution in the Middle East during a speech before an overflow crowd at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night...
Israeli experts, however, say the bones aren't important. Yossi Nagal, the Israel Antiquity Authority's head of anthropology, examined the find, and says it's the remains of two Bedouin women buried about 200 years ago. The Cal State team "got overexcited," says Hanan Eshel, a leader of the Qumran dig and an archaeologist at Tel Aviv's Bar-Ilan University. More important than the bones, says Eshel, is a zinc coffin also found nearby by Dubay and Walker. Zinc has never before been found in burial artifacts from the Essenes' time. That signals an important, probably wealthy person...
...Peace Violence flared again as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon returned to Israel following talks in Washington with U.S. President George W. Bush. A fact-finding mission led by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell began its visit to the region, holding discussions with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian negotiator Hanan Ashrawi. The committee, created last October, is seeking ways of reducing Israeli-Palestinian violence, which has now cost more than 400 lives. But Bush said the U.S would not "force peace," and the cia would no longer act as a broker in the region...
Penn's Zach Hanan to line into a double play to get out of the inning unscathed...