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...attack innocent civilians. Some groups, with enormous amounts of restraint and self-respect, have been able to effect change without resorting to violence. When it comes to detonating oneself in a shopping mail, a restaurant or disco, there is always a choice. For the Palestinian leadership to insist that the occupation has forced its people to commit these atrocities—that the Palestinian people have no agency—is to deny the very humanity of the Palestinian people...
...efforts to cajole Arafat into declaring a cease-fire have once again proved fruitless - the Palestinians insist that all bets are off until Israel has entirely ended its incursions, and their security chiefs warn that the Israeli offensive has left them unable to resume cooperation with the Israelis. West Bank security chief Jibril Rajoub, a sometime prot?g? of the CIA and one of Israel's favorite alternatives to Arafat, had a chilling message Monday: "I don't think it's possible for us, after this sea of blood, to talk about security coordination or any kind of coordination with Israel...
...should be a tasteful affair when PAMELA ANDERSON marries KID ROCK. True, the remarkably cantilevered star of V.I.P. wore a bikini to her first wedding, and the lank-haired rocker rarely appears on stage without strippers. But, they repeatedly insist, they are just homey folks who, on those evenings when they're not out making a spectacle with their explicit displays of affection, like to sit at home and hang out with the kids. (She has two sons with first husband Tommy Lee; Rock has a son from a previous relationship.) The two met backstage at a VH-1 concert...
...people insist on making an absurd connection between celibacy and pedophilia [RELIGION, April 1]? These priests do not harm children because priests cannot marry but because they are deviants. If they had just wanted to find sexual pleasure, they could have found willing adult female partners. These men preyed on children, the most naive of their community. Jesus said it would be better to be drowned in the sea than to lead a child into sin. Let these men drown in the sea of prison. TONY LEE LYNN Ida, Mich...
...sometimes the tapestry matters more than the threads. Sometimes the weight of human experience, which suggests that all is not colliding atoms and crashing chemical waves, matters more than the laboratory rats who insist that their test tubes and supercollidors can take the measure of man, and of this strange earth (and heaven?) that we inhabit...