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...pounding against ignorance for now, but with a withering movement of the Religious Right--which isn't as strong as one might believe here, as this state still has its political mindset rooted in populism, which does not necessarily go lockstep with the Republican party line--and the onset of old age amongst the Baby Boomer set, it's believable that such a ban could drift away in 10 or 15 years. And yet, that is 10 or 15 years too long...
...bombing, a meeting Thursday between Israel's deputy defense minister and the secretary general of the Palestinian Authority appears to have established terms for a new cease-fire. Israel has agreed to withdraw its forces from the edge of Palestinian towns and reopen border crossings to coincide with the onset of Ramadan. In exchange, the Palestinian Authority has undertaken to stop shootings and other violent actions on the Palestinian side. Barak and Arafat reportedly also agreed in a phone conversation Friday to restore the Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation that Israel had suspended a day earlier...
Both teams showed early-season jitters and sloppiness at the game's onset. After five minutes of play, the game was knotted at two and Shankes had already left the game with two quick fouls...
Khatib's younger brother Issam also lost his job with the onset of this intifadeh. Issam was a receptionist at the Oasis, a casino in the Palestinian town of Jericho, part owned by Arafat and frequented almost entirely by Israelis. When the violence started, Israelis were barred from traveling into Jericho. The Oasis closed. "I didn't look upon the people who came there as Jews or Muslims," says Issam, who earned what was for a Palestinian the princely sum of $1,000 a month plus tips. "They were all just gamblers to me." Even if calm were restored...
...time for feckless moaning. Only days to go. They paid their money - what's our choice? The 1960 analogy is disconcerting. That election came after the relatively serene Eisenhower years. And pretty soon after 1960, all hell broke loose - assassinations, riots, war, the glorious '60s. And the onset of the dark, ruined presidencies - Lyndon Johnson's, Richard Nixon...