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...glaziers of Jerusalem will be rich if the intifadeh goes on like this. They charge $1,500 to install car windows that are shatter-resistant. People are paying. The Palestinian uprising is 2 1/2 years old. It has hardened into a dreary, bitter ritual. The reciprocal stoning and beating obey Newton's Third Law of Motion--for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Each side has found its threshold of acceptable suffering and cruelty...
...bunch of (now useless) acid-free paper. I’m sure you’ve been celebrating like crazy since Wednesday afternoon. Have a few drinks for me but, please, stay away from Sambuca. And if a bartender tells you to stop dancing on his tables, obey him without getting belligerent. Also, I hope you didn’t yak all over your boyfriend’s sheets last night. He just washed them, you know...
...this includes knives.) They cannot be housed in a cell. "Scientific equipment" and "musical instruments" can be sent from home. Classifying al-Qaeda and senior Taliban as lawful combatants could also shield them from prosecution for their attacks on U.S. military targets. That is why soldiers who fail to obey the rules of war must be considered outlaws, vulnerable to the judgment of the courts...
...mood for appeasing critics. The point man for the U.S. with Arafat is Anthony Zinni, Powell's newly appointed special envoy for the Middle East. Arafat so far is not taken with the retired general. "He treats me like a soldier who's supposed to obey orders," Arafat told aides after their first meeting. Another mediator who failed to bond with Arafat last week was Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher. Usually, Arafat counts on Egypt to support his positions, but this time the Palestinians didn't like what Maher had to say. In a three-hour meeting with Arafat...
...efficiency or the effectiveness of a court of law, and it should whenever possible defer its fact-finding role to the legal system. Unlike the Ad Board, courts have extensive resources to use in gathering evidence that the best efforts of a subcommittee of administrators could never equal. Courts obey recognized standards of due process, allow for the cross-examination of witnesses by both sides before a fact-finding jury and permit the representation of the accused by an experienced attorney as opposed to a proctor, dean or senior tutor...