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...January was supposed to check the power of Arafat's executive. But when a group of councilors was asked recently what percentage of their resolutions were implemented by the P.A., they broke out laughing. The answer was zero. Arafat has trampled on the supposedly independent judiciary as well. In mid-August the High Court in Ramallah ordered the release of 10 university students detained without being charged in a roundup of alleged Islamists. But Arafat squashed the order, explaining to a delegation from the Legislative Council that he had not been consulted by the court and was not its puppet...
...beauty of the game is that it traces the arc of life. Until mid-August, baseball was a boy in shorts whooping it up in the fat grass. Now it becomes a leery veteran with a sunbaked neck, whose main concern is to protect the plate. In its second summer, baseball is about fouling off death...
According to Whelan, the changes will be on-line at the department's world wide web site by mid-August...
...case, Holbrooke intends to drive the participants at the same breakneck pace he has been forcing since mid-August. Over the weekend he was polishing a full draft of a proposed peace treaty that Christopher expects to put before the three Presidents as soon as talks begin. Holbrooke's tempo has some critics, notably in the French Foreign Ministry. They contend it results in the papering over of contentious details that may crop up later to wreck a seeming agreement. Holbrooke's answer is that stopping to iron out all the details is a sure formula for having negotiations...
...company delivered the units to Princeton's Poe Court in mid-August, and students moved into the yellow trailers September 1, according to the Weekly Bulletin...