Word: pattern
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More and more, that is the pattern of confrontation these days in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Even as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were preparing to resume peace talks set for this week in Washington, their armed compatriots were shooting it out in the territories. The new pattern began to emerge eight months ago, when the Israeli army launched an all-out offensive to end what it describes as the "red intifadeh," resistance by an increasing number of Palestinians who have switched from stones to guns in their fight against the occupation. The army's campaign, which...
...been disturbed by grave robbers. But one of the intact ossuaries bore the inscription "Yehosef bar Qayafa," or Joseph, son of Caiaphas, and included the remains of a woman, a man of about 60 and four children. The outside of the ossuary is decorated in a rare and intricate pattern of concentric circles and rosettes, perhaps befitting a priest's tomb. After almost 2,000 years, however, it is impossible to know for sure...
...Just as with any habit made early in life when someone votes one way the first, and second time, it's a lot more likely that they will vote that way down the road. If it doesn't set at lifelong pattern of definite votes for Republicans, at least it sets a lifelong leaning to that side...
Teenagers (and most other people for that matter) are likely to encounter Gas Food Lodging only by chance, given its modest release pattern and the fact that it is going forth unpopulated with major stars, unequipped with big-time advertising and utterly devoid of glamour. But Allison Anders' film is like its main characters -- spunky, smart, tougher than they look -- and one wants to believe that the film, like them, will somehow make its way in an uncaring world...
...largest commercial bank in Saudi Arabia. Still another enormously rich Saudi remains under investigation: Abdul Raouf Khalil, a shareholder in both B.C.C.I. and First American. The barrage of charges against these prominent Saudis poses a sticky problem for the Bush Administration, one that threatens to uncover an embarrassing pattern of legal and illegal intelligence operations as well as arms and money transactions involving Arab states, Israel...