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...William Burns arrived in Jerusalem to promote a new peace plan aimed at ending the two-year Palestinian uprising. The "road map" to peace, which is also backed by the E.U., Russia and the U.N., calls for an end to violence, Palestinian political reforms and Israeli military withdrawals to pave the way to a Palestinian state by the end of 2005. Burns met Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian officials, but not their leader Yasser Arafat. Meanwhile, Israeli troops re-entered the West Bank town of Jenin, in response to a suicide bombing on Monday that killed...
...most famous threat was a plan to purchase Harvard Yard by eminent domain and pave it over for public parking, thereby solving Cambridge’s parking problems...
Then again, North Augusta police chief Lee Wetherington has hired Travelers to pave his driveway and paint his house. "They did an outstanding job," he says. Locals call them Gypsies and whisper about their dirty deals. But, says Penn, "we don't put our old folks in rest homes. We don't have as many divorces. And when a woman gets raped or a bank gets robbed, law enforcement doesn't come to Murphy Village." Says Joe Livingston, a senior agent with the South Carolina state police who has tracked the Travelers for two decades: "It's really a paradox...
...wasn't thinking about Harry Potter for a second when I wrote Summerland," Chabon insists. But he admits that "it helped pave the way. It made the idea of a children's book so much more thinkable for writers." Even when you put aside the money, what writer would not want to have J.K. Rowling's impact on the world? Because of Rowling's Harry Potter series, millions of children have decided, at least for a while, that the most important thing in their lives is not a Powerpuff Girls movie, a pro-wrestling action figure or Britney...
DIED. LARRY RIVERS, 78, iconoclastic painter and sculptor who helped pave the way for the Pop Art movement; of liver cancer; in Southampton, N.Y. After studying the old masters in Paris, Rivers injected ironic humor into the earnest, Abstract Expressionist-dominated art world of the 1950s, with such works as Washington Crossing the Delaware, a parody of the famous American painting. A saxophonist, writer and sometime actor (appearing in the Beat-era underground film Pull My Daisy), he was both self-promoting and self-deprecating. Hospitalized once in the '80s, he envisioned his obituary headline as GENIUS OF THE VULGAR...