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...been a week of dangerous, teetering triumph for Gamal Abdel Nasser, the new Alexander of the Eastern Mediterranean, a conqueror who has never marched beyond his balcony, a soldier whose victories are made from military defeats, a victor who has never won a war or even a battle. By marshaling the emotions of the Arab masses, articulating their angriest aspirations, stirring their most vituperative violence by his press and radio, and plotting to subvert rulers everywhere, Nasser had achieved his pinnacle. This vigorous and magnetic figure, who wears Western-style sports clothes but kneels toward Mecca with the strictest mullah...
...Home Sweet Home involve around 80 employees. But some are impressed. "I was surprised to see how many solid and savvy business partners were already here," says Olivier Zelphati, returning after eight stateside years to start his own bio-biz. "It's got virtually all California has." Plus the Mediterranean. Vive la Sickie! Workaholics they're not, but a new study by the U.K.'s Trades Union Congress says British employees do have an addiction that cost the economy €3.37 billion last year. Some 14.8 million workdays are lost annually because of alcohol-related illness or workers pulling "sickies...
...reunification finally at hand for Cyprus? On Feb. 16 Tassos Papadopoulos, 69, grabbed a surprise victory in presidential elections in the Greek section of Cyprus, the Mediterranean island that has been divided into Greek and Turkish enclaves since Turkey invaded the north in 1974. So when U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan visits Cyprus this week as part of an attempt to enforce the U.N.'s Feb. 28 deadline for a plan to stitch the island back together, he will not be dealing with defeated incumbent Glafcos Clerides, who was favorably disposed toward reunification. Instead, Annan will have to address...
...settlement freeze in those territories as part of a future peace effort, another position not shared by Sharon's base. And the Likud party voted last May (against Sharon's wishes) to reaffirm as party policy the rejection of any Palestinian state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea - a fundamental objective of U.S. policy...
...inevitability of a "clash of civilizations" in the wake of the Cold War.] We will have Turkey, with a predominantly Muslim population as part of the European Union, and this will have profound effect on the views of the people of the Middle East, the Caspian Sea region, the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions towards the EU. Europe has a great opportunity to prove that EU is not a Christian club, but based on democratic values...