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Dissent: Treatment Is Too Harsh...
Like Zimbabwe, Iraq is ruled by a nominally-elected leader who cannot be trusted. Saddam Hussein is still in power a decade after losing the Persian Gulf War. He chose to subject his people to years of harsh sanctions rather than allowing the United Nations weapons inspections to proceed—inspections to which he agreed in his surrender. But now, three years after expelling these inspectors, Hussein is willing to discuss their re-entry into Iraq...
Silence in Rafah is only the momentary stillness at the heart of a hurricane, and the storm is the Aqsa intifadeh. For almost 17 months, the Palestinian uprising and Israel's harsh reaction to it have ravaged both sides of the Green Line, which separates Israel from the Palestinian territories. This town of 135,000 at the southern end of the Gaza Strip is the epicenter, where the intifadeh's ill effects are fiercest. There is no worse place to be an Israeli soldier; nowhere is it harder to live as a Palestinian...
Instead, the fans received a harsh lesson in the unpredictable nature of short-track speed skating...
...difficult to say how well the music of these and other emerging British bands will survive the harsh commercialism of the American market. They will face stiff competition from The Strokes, a group of New York City natives whose debut album Is This It is lighting up the charts in the U.S., following a massive publicity buildup by The Strokes in Britain. Better established British rock bands like Radiohead and Blur are also eating up what little consumer market exists for independent music in America. Many budding talents have been nipped in the past by the most expensive and exclusive...