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...called him a liar. When was the last time a public figure like Oprah admitted to being wrong? When was the last time a powerful person like Oprah issued a genuine public apology? I think all the people who profited from Nasdijj's fraud should take heed of that lesson and issue public apologies to Native Americans in general and to Navajo in particular. And I hope we won't be waiting for that apology as long as the rivers flow, the grasses grow and the winds blow...
...near future, although Hamas has given every indication that it plans to maintain their truce with Israel as it undertakes a wholesale cleansing and rebuilding of the corrupt and weakened Palestinian institutions. But when the two sides inevitably meet over a bargaining table-and history's lesson is that when national conflicts are solved in negotiations, those deemed terrorists eventually end up at that table-Israel will find Hamas a far tougher, but also far more credible interlocutor than Arafat ever was. Just as the hard-liner Sharon was widely held to be the best Israeli leader to uproot settlements...
Voter sentiment was the same from the crowded cities of the Gaza strip to hillside towns in the West Bank: It's time to teach the ruling Fatah party a lesson. As Palestinians lined up to vote Wednesday in their first legislative elections in ten years, many said that their government needed a shakeup. Fatah, founded by Yasser Arafat and led today by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, is widely viewed as corrupt and incompetent. According to polls, around a third of all Palestinian voters now support Hamas, a radical Islamist group committed to destroying Israel but also widely...
...real persons of the year were the victims of Hurricane Katrina. From their handling of unimaginable horror to their continuing display of courage, they can teach us all a lesson. Sam Bliss Rutherford, New Jersey...
...investing. According to some estimates, individual investors now account for 50% of the Japanese market?s total trading volume. ?Many Japanese households have started to join in the stock market, and a lot of money went into technology stock shares,? says Aida. ?They got panicked. This should be a lesson for them.? Indeed, on Thursday, Japan?s market staged its biggest rally in 20 months and exchange chairman Taizo Nishimuro assured investors that it would double its capacity by the end of the year...