Word: jericho
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BETHLEHEM: The Austrian investors behind the Oasis Casino must be feeling pretty lucky; otherwise, the odds against a gambling palace in the Palestinian town of Jericho would seem awfully steep. The $50 million facility that opened Tuesday night sits right across the road from a dusty Palestinian refugee camp. And while Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority (PA) stands to collect a fortune in gaming taxes, ordinary Palestinians aren't invited. Entry is restricted to holders of foreign passports, which means most gamblers at the Oasis will be Israeli...
...outrage when some countries like the U.S. have 12,070 warheads, while others like India have only about 65 warheads? Either the nations of the world should ban nuclear testing entirely or accept the fact that other countries will also use nuclear weapons to attain power. TANVI H. CHHEDA Jericho...
...sedate land of Canada is a hotbed of one of the most aggressive and violent "sports" out there. As Pete Winson, a Boston University student and friend of this reporter, so astutely notes, "[All] the best pro wrestlers come from Canada." This list includes Bret and Owen Hart, Chris Jericho, Jacques Rougeau, Phil LaFon and Chris Benoit...
...King, editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, also stepped down last week after his own bruising battles with bottom-liners at the Knight-Ridder chain. In Los Angeles, editor Parks says he's not worried. "Look, the walls are not going to come tumbling down," he says. "This is not Jericho. I am absolutely confident of our ability to work out this new partnership with the business side--and not only our ability, but of our need to do it." The crunch, after...
While the resignation of the Cabinet gave Arafat breathing room, there are no easy choices for him when it comes to handling the Islamic militants. Palestinian officials show no great appetite for complying with Israeli and American demands to swoop down on them. Last week in Jericho a senior official counseled Arafat, "We speak and act as if we are puppets manipulated by the Israelis, and the time has come to stop this apologetic policy." Yet Arafat, according to one of his associates, is terrified that the Islamists will carry out more bombings, prompting a dramatic response by Israel that...