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...domestic pressures that prevent him from launching a war to destroy Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority are mounting, but his orientation remains to seek a military victory before any sort of political process. Cabinet hawks demand that the military's full might be unleashed on the Palestinian territories. Doves insist that the only way to restore Israel's security is to seek a peace agreement that largely extricates it from the West Bank and Gaza. But Sharon finds himself in the bloody limbo between full-scale war and renewed negotiations, watching his domestic political support plummet as he orders...
...with TIME, Abdullah said that "America cannot fight this war alone" and that he does "not believe that the war on terrorism applies to Iran and Iraq"--but refused to say whether Saudi Arabia would support a U.S. attack on Baghdad. Translation: he might, but he's going to insist that in return America secure a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians...
...BioMed Centrals founders insist the journal has a future because of its revolutionary approach to publishing, where scientists pay a nominal fee for their article to undergo review and the journal itself makes no profit from the publication of the article...
Hentoff: The problem is if you insist on talking about the situation in the context of affirmative action. My view on this is the same as William O. Douglas’. You can’t do it by racial preference, you must take into account one person at a time—that’s true equal protection under the law. When you do it collectively it’s not equal protection...
...spend a lot of time playing basketball and watching movies. They pride themselves on being the only two people who hated Lord of the Rings and insist that “now that Siskel’s dead” they should become the nation’s preeminent movie-reviewing...