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DIED.Oriana Fallaci, 77, fearsome, glamorous Italian journalist renowned during the 1960s and '70s for her war reporting and aggressive, revealing interviews with world leaders like Yasser Arafat, Golda Meir and Ayatullah Khomeini, whom she famously asked, "How do you swim in a chador?"; in Florence. Of her passion for covering combat, Fallaci said, "Nothing reveals man the way war does." In recent years, she drew accusations of racism for referring to an "Islamic invasion" of Europe and declaring that "sons of Allah breed like rats...
...part, Israel has vehemently rejected that notion, most prominently floated by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, that the observers were deliberately targeted. "What interest does it serve if Israel targets U.N. servicemen deliberately?" Gideon Meir, a deputy director-general of the Foreign Ministry, asked. "What can we gain out of it? Quite the contrary...
...even as the violence escalated, the truth about what happened on June 9 remains elusive. Israeli officials initially expressed sorrow over the incident and halted shelling in the area pending an internal investigation of the incident. But last week the Israelis revealed that a probe led by Major General Meir Kalifi has absolved Israel of blame. According to Kalifi, the Israel Defense Forces (I.D.F.), on the basis of aerial surveillance, have fixed the time of the explosion at between 4:57 p.m. and 5:10 p.m. In response to Qassam rocket attacks by Palestinian militants, the I.D.F. fired six artillery...
...terrorize Israelis. In the case with Egypt, Anwar Sadat was so committed to a solution with Israel that he was willing to alienate himself from the rest of the Arab world in order to bring about peace. Until the Palestinians generate leaders that, in the words of Golda Meir, “love their children more than they hate Israel,” there will be no peace...
...Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) professor faced criticism this week for making appearances at Anheuser-Busch events to discuss his research on the benefits of moderate alcohol consumption. Meir J. Stampfer, the chair of HSPH’s department of epidemiology, attended two luncheons in New York and Chicago to discuss his studies, Francine I. Katz, vice president of communications and consumer affairs for Anheuser-Busch, wrote in a statement. The company paid for his travel expenses. While Stampfer has not been personally compensated, the company has donated $150,000 to the HSPH, which is used for student scholarships...