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Finally, the article describes the agreement as to a general lack of good information in the U.S. about the history and greater significance of this most recent conflagration. This lack of good information demonstrates itself in the following paragraph, which mentions Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount accompanied by several hundred armed police officers--accompanied by a handful of bodyguards would have been more accurate...
Kosslyn says psychology would love to mount a junior tutorial program, but has resource issues to work through first...
...oppose it. A terrorist bombing or even a dramatic shooting by Hamas or other hard-liners would force Prime Minister Barak, in deep political peril at home, to respond harshly, which would in turn prompt the Palestinian leadership to respond in kind. And another stroll around the Temple Mount by Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon or even more shootings of Palestinian civilians by anti-peace Israeli settlers in the West Bank could restart the cycle of violence from the other side. So, despite the cease-fire, a "final status" peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians may have moved from...
...after 1967 that are viewed as illegal by Palestinians, the soldiers will be a magnet for Palestinian rage. That fact has suited Arafat these past three weeks because it has given him leverage to counter pressure from the U.S. and Israel to sign away Palestinian claims on the Temple Mount. But despite Arafat's having made his point and agreed to a cease-fire, his political authority, even over his own loyalists, may have waned considerably - particularly in light of such situations as that which led to the Ramallah lynching, where his security forces stand between angry Palestinians...
Joanna White, a music professor in Mount Pleasant, Mich., left her bulky "savings" box of childhood memorabilia in her parents' garage in Kensington, Calif., until shortly before her 40th birthday this year. The things in that carton represented her "young self," she explains, who was creative and a writer. On her last visit, though, she did bring the box's contents back to Michigan because she wanted to show her daughter Kailey, 7, who's talking about being a writer, the stories she had written at age seven. "When Kailey read them," White relates, "she decided that at that...