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...Islamic Movement's radical wing. Salah and his deputy were interrogated by the Shin Bet last week, in what the sheik believes was an attempt to intimidate them into silence before the election. If the Shin Bet was making a veiled threat to Salah, it's the overt and violent Palestinian threat that dominates the election for Israel's Jews. Back at the Yellow Submarine, it's 2:30 a.m. and a fat, middle-aged man joins Lahav on stage to sing about the Zionist philanthropist Moses Montefiore, who built the first Jewish neighborhood outside Jerusalem's Old City...
What if Harvard lost its football stadium? There is little question how quickly University President Lawrence H. Summers would act to ensure complete continuity in the program. And while the priority—or lack thereof—given to dance at Harvard is probably not due to any overt gender bias, the resulting effect will predominantly hurt undergraduate women. This neglect is discrimination “in effect if not intent,” to use a phrase with which Summers is surely familiar. Had the administration given this issue the priority it deserved back in 1999, the potential...
...dinner Wednesday night, the two men could not have been sat farther apart. Bush who is expert at working a room, barely wandered into Schroeder's corner. The next day Bush merely said their interaction had been "cordial," one of the signature diplomatic characterizations used to keep from causing overt offense, but little more...
...change in Iraq - and strengthen the hand of those in the U.S., Europe and the Arab world opposed to war. Washington hawks are more than a little anxious at the extent to which the Bush Administration has been yoked to a UN inspection timetable that could, if Saddam avoids overt confrontation, drag matters on into next February, and even then not produce a definitive case for a UN-sanctioned war. The neo-conservative flagship Weekly Standard warns that absent any self-destructive instinct on Saddam's part, even 100 days from now the most likely outcome of the renewed inspection...
Announcements of results elicited a mix of cheers and boos in the main room. But in the sanctuary of their assigned rooms, partisan sentiments were more overt...