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...Palestinians say the seven-day hiatus in violence that kicks off a six-week "cooling off" period began last Wednesday; the Israelis say it has yet to begin. A weekend that included Palestinian militants killed in an Israeli rocket attack and two car bombs detonated deep inside Israel appeared to render the discussion moot, and the more immediate countdown now may be the one that ends with the collapse of the U.S.-brokered cease-fire, which will be followed by a race between Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat and Secretary of State Colin Powell to be the first...
After all-too-brief hiatus, the perennial battle over the Patients? Bill of Rights begins again this week on Capitol Hill. And while lawmakers on both sides of the aisle claim to be more than ready to sign a bill into law, the crucial question remains: Whose bill will they sign...
...problem is that I am a sports fan first, and everything else second. The sports fan in me has been on temporary hiatus for these four years as, through Zen techniques and constant meditation, I have succeeded in not breaking into "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" while sitting in press row at Harvard basketball games...
DIED. BOOZOO CHAVIS, 70, Louisiana-born King of Zydeco who helped popularize the genre with his 1954 Paper in My Shoe; in Austin, Texas. He packed dance halls with his rhythmic sounds till the late '50s when he began a long hiatus. But upon hearing about an impersonator in 1984, he returned to launch a renaissance of button-accordion zydeco...
...ones? For starters, "Family Guy." That's right, "Family Guy," a comedy that debuted two and a half years ago. A comedy so funny and so beloved that the network left it off its schedule all last year. Commonly thought to be canceled - though it's been on hiatus before - it keeps coming back, like some fat, addle-brained and unkillable Rasputin. At least it wasn't "Normal, Ohio...