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...viewed by U.S. officials as a critical first step toward peace. "Abbas doesn't have 100 days of grace. He doesn't even have 100 seconds," says Amos Gilad, an influential Defense Ministry policymaker. Top Palestinian officials say the attack at the Gaza checkpoint showed that extremists intend to use violence to bury any chance Abbas has of diplomatic progress - a strategy that yielded immediate results when Sharon suspended ties with Abbas the next day. Abbas is feeling pressure. At a meeting last week of the central committee of Fatah, Abbas' political party, there were heated exchanges between party officials...
...things I've learned is that sometimes words have consequences you don't intend them to. 'Bring 'em on' is a classic example...
...viewed by U.S. officials as a critical first step toward peace. "Abbas doesn't have 100 days of grace. He doesn't even have 100 seconds," says Amos Gilad, an influential Israeli Defense Ministry policymaker. Top Palestinian officials say the attack at the Gaza checkpoint showed that extremists intend to use violence to bury any chance Abbas has of diplomatic progress. --By Matt Rees. With reporting by Jamil Hamad, Aharon Klein and Elaine Shannon
...small seaside town about an hour north of Barnstable began another unsparing manhunt this month in hopes of solving a three-year-old murder. Police in Truro, Mass., intend to collect the DNA of every one of the town's 790 males. After that, the cops may cast a wider net, reaching neighboring towns. They started by approaching men at Truro's few outposts--the post office, the pizza place, the grocery store--and politely asking each if they could swipe a lollipop-size swab inside his cheek. It's strictly voluntary, and the Truro men can say no. Then...
...things I've learned is that sometimes words have consequences you don't intend them to mean. 'Bring them on' is a classic example." GEORGE W. BUSH, the U.S. President, expressing regret for two statements he made during his first term. The other was his promise that the U.S. would bring in Osama bin Laden "dead or alive...