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...Gaza-first may, however, be the most palatable starting point for an Israeli government sharply divided over the terms of a political solution with the Palestinians and whether to resume relations with the PA. The dusty strip of Mediterranean coastline populated mostly by Palestinian refugees holds little sentimental value to even the most ardent Zionists, and many of Sharon's supporters vehemently opposed to a Palestinian state in the West Bank tend to acknowledge that it might be an inevitability in Gaza. Unlike the West Bank, Gaza is separated from Israel by a border fence that has, for the most...
...Powell camp also worries that war with Iraq would destabilize the entire Islamic crescent from the Mediterranean to the Himalayas and that a post-Saddam Iraq might devolve into neighbor-rattling chaos. To make sure the hotheads consider every complication and consequence, Powell has forged an informal alliance with powerful old pals in uniform at the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They are, like him, Vietnam-era generals who believe that regardless of whether an invasion is a good idea (and most doubt that it is), any military action must follow the old Powell doctrine: overwhelming in size...
...report. It also said that the cia did not pay enough attention to language training - and, as a result, fewer than a third of the officers who needed foreign language skills were proficient in them. The FBI was accused of not putting enough emphasis on the prevention of terrorism. MEDITERRANEAN The Tussle for Parsley Island A dispute between Spain and Morocco over a tiny island known to Spain as Perejil (parsley) came to a head with Spain recalling its ambassador and sending troops to seize the island 200 m off Morocco's coast. Later Spain offered to remove its troops...
Rusmir Cisic, a Bosnian muslim engineer, remembers the day his native Mostar lost the bridge from which the city takes its name. For more than four centuries the Stari Most, or Old Bridge, linked the Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds, Christianity and Islam, West and East. Its graceful arch and stone towers in southeastern Bosnia were a meeting place for Serbs, Croats and Muslims as well as travelers from as far away as Istanbul and Glasgow. That ended with the Bosnian war, when the Neretva River became a front line between the town's Croat and Muslim residents. Some tried...
...started by his grandmother. For 19 years after finishing catering school, he didn't even cook, working instead as maître d'hôtel. He began helping in the kitchen in 1988, after his mother won a Michelin star by shifting from Alsatian fare to a Mediterranean- inspired menu more typical of the south of France. Klein has since added flavors from farther afield, in dishes like coconut red-mullet soup spiced with Madras curry and sprinkled with aquatic mint. "I'll try an unusual mixture that someone from the classical tradition wouldn't think of," he says...