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...leadership of Hamas has long demonstrated a keen ability to stay onside with Palestinian public opinion. That may help explain why the movement - under pressure from Arab governments to make it easier to stand up to U.S. pressure to cut all financial aid - has been debating a move toward a de facto two-state solution. But if the anger generated on the streets by Abbas's referendum ultimatum is sufficiently widespread, Hamas may decide to call his bluff - because they believe they can win the issue where it counts, in the streets...
...Mark B. Helm ’78, the Review president at the time, recalls: “The faculty didn’t necessarily agree with the direction we were heading, but the collision course that it seemed like we were on was avoided. We were not especially keen to provoke a fight with the faculty but we weren’t willing to abandon our plans either.” The following year, the Review adopted an affirmative action policy that allowed the editors to consider race in selecting its new members. BRINGING IN THE FAIRER SEXIn the ensuing...
...year Food Network chef may look like she was born to be in the kitchen, but De Laurentiis tells TIME's Alice Park that her family wasn't too keen on a life as a chef for her. Her grandfather, movie producer Dino De Laurentiis, had established strong roots in Hollywood, and had lured his daughters and other members of the clan to Tinseltown. Giada was supposed to follow suit, but she had her own ideas...
...annual roundup of the 100 most influential people provoked lively challenges to our choices and keen appreciation for the diverse talents that are promoting change throughout the world...
...Kurdish parties. Inside political circles, Maliki had been known as a strident Shi'ite hardliner. Since his nomination, he has struck a more conciliatory pose, talking up unity and inching away from the anti-Sunni positions he had previously defended. His reinvention has been aided by U.S. officials keen to present him as Iraq's best hope. Khalilzad has described him an a "patriot, a tough-minded leader" who has "taken tough positions against terrorists and the insurgency and Baathists...