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...same attitudes have brought Hamas new constituencies in the older Palestinian intellectual elite. A Hamas-led bloc recently won control of the Palestinian engineers' union in Gaza City, where Rafiq Mikki, 45, a civil engineer, is the chairman. He counted himself a true believer in Hamas but said the rising tide of votes came from the 35% of "undecideds" who have turned to Hamas out of profound frustration. Their hopes for an independent future have been thwarted by everyone: the Palestinian Authority, Israeli Prime Minister Sharon, the U.S., the U.N. "No one helps us," he said. "Hamas' rising strength...
...corruption. Outsiders want to hold onto their power, squash the press and keep their business monopolies. The lawlessness of the intifadeh has made the squabbles more coldly violent. In February, Abu Amr, the owner of the Beach Hotel in Gaza City, invited Hisham Mikki, the head of the official Palestinian television station, to sit with him in his empty restaurant, smoking a water pipe and looking out over the Mediterranean. Mikki came back from exile with Arafat and amassed a fortune from corrupt deals. He began to puff on a nargileh filled with apple-scented Bahraini tobacco. Barely...
...This has nothing to do with mid-Cambridge," said resident Mikki Ansin...
...found Mikki Halpin, Stim's erstwhile editor, sitting among a double row of mauve, mostly vacant cubicles. Stim (named after William Gibson's imaginary "digital drug") was typical of the flood of 'zines that launched last year. It was silly and fun and new, and it took the kinds of risks you don't take if you've already found a market. In the weeks preceding the Democratic National Convention, for instance, Stim's political commentator was forbidden to read or listen to press accounts of the presidential race; he had to write his stuff cold. Then when the Dick...
...erases his memory. Bang!, you're a new man. The old one needed some revision. That Henry was a slick Manhattan lawyer who misused his gifts to ruin innocent men and save venal corporations. Instructed by his chic wife (Annette Bening) to apologize to their 11-year-old daughter (Mikki Allen), Henry instead scolds the dear girl in Latin. The guy barely deserves to live, until he gets a chance to do it right, from scratch...