Word: logjams
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...shown that such a crackdown would lead inexorably to statehood and an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. All of this, of course, is familiar ground. The Bush administration had hoped that twisting Yasser Arafat's arm to appoint Abbas would somehow break the logjam, but when Sharon met with Abbas and senior PA figures last Saturday, the change of faces on the Palestinian side of the table had not changed the basic stalled conversation...
...fluctuating toll may be partly due to regional statistical idiosyncrasies. In Hong Kong, for example, many of the recent fatalities were residents of Amoy Gardens, an apartment complex where at the end of March more than 200 people contracted SARS in a matter of days?producing a logjam of critically ill patients who are now beginning to die, as it takes several weeks for SARS to claim its victims. More unsettling are reports from several laboratories that the coronavirus responsible is mutating almost continuously as it spreads, raising the possibility that certain strains may be more vicious than others...
...Palestinian leaders say Israel's security cannot be guaranteed as long as it maintains its occupation; Israeli leaders say the occupation cannot be ended while terrorists threaten Israel's security. Hence the "roadmap," reminding the two sides of what must be done in order to break out of the logjam. But if the Israelis and Palestinians prove unable or unwilling to head out along the route described in the "roadmap," the question becomes whether the international community - and the Bush administration - has a Plan B to achieve both Israeli security and Palestinian independence...
...first-round bye in the ECAC tournament, which is given to the top four teams in the league during the regular season. The Crimson is currently in second place, three points behind Cornell, and there is no way that more than one team in the current fourth-place logjam (Brown, Dartmouth and Union) could catch Harvard during the last four games of the regular season. There’s no sense in going into detail—it’s too complicated. Just trust that your buddies on the team will have the weekend...
...increased power over the Bundesrat. That means almost every new piece of legislation must be negotiated by the Mediation Committee - whose 32 members, drawn from both houses of parliament, are now evenly divided between the SPD and the CDU - before it becomes law. The new reality of legislative logjam means the two leading parties will have to cooperate, at least informally, or nothing will be accomplished. "There will be a de facto grand coalition constituted in the Mediation Committee," says Peter Lösche, a political scientist at the University of Göttingen. Grand coalitions are extremely rare...