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What comes with the title of knight? Does it mean you get a better table in restaurants? -Patty Davis, PITTSBURGH, PA.[Laughs.] They're a bit uncomfortable about success, the Brits. But when you think you're being totally ignored by England, they suddenly say 'You now belong to the nation.'" You become a bit of an ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to be taken as a true reflection of the British people and our concerns. If it gets me a better place at those tables, I want to be there...
...human behavior. Our anxiety about all the ways harm may befall someone else keeps us mindful of the safety of family and community. "There's a creative, what-if quality to this thinking," says clinical psychologist Jonathan Grayson of the Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center in Bala Cynwyd, Pa. "It's evolutionarily valuable...
...PA, which was created in 1994 as an interim body for Palestinian self-rule in the occupied territories as a prelude to statehood, is now in shambles. After years of single-party rule by Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, the PA became a paragon of corruption and mismanagement. Hamas won control of the PA's legislature and government in democratic elections of January 2006, prompting a Western boycott of much of the Authority. And after the short, sharp civil war in Gaza in June, Palestinians now have in effect two rival governments - one run by the Islamist militants of Hamas...
...hope of Blair's bridging the intra-Palestinian rift that runs through the heart of the PA is made that much more difficult by the Quartet's refusal to deal with Hamas. In a speech last week, President Bush announced a plan to continue Hamas's international isolation, while lavishing money and weapons of Fatah - a scheme that few observers in the region believe is likely to bring peace any closer...
...Under the new Bush plans, Israel would begin peace talks with the Palestinians on the condition that the Palestinian Authority (PA) crack down on terrorism and corruption. This is understandable but unrealistic. The Fatah leadership that has controlled the PA since the 1993 Oslo Accords has been unable or unwilling to curb Palestinian militants. A key reason terrorist acts continue is that many Palestinians simply don't see the benefits of giving up armed struggle. With no end in sight to the growth of Israelis settlements and security barriers in the occupied West Bank, most Palestinians have lost faith...