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Arthur Hertzberg, a renowned Jewish historian and a vocal critic of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s policies, warned that if demographic trends persist, the Arab population will grow to constitute a majority within the current borders of the State of Israel in the next 20 years...
...only flooded streets, downed power lines and grieving families but also a sense of rising menace. That's because a growing number of scientists believe that conditions favorable for brewing more and even bigger hurricanes in the Atlantic locked into place about eight years ago and will probably persist for at least a decade and maybe longer. "We're not talking about a minor little increase," says Stanley Goldenberg, a hurricane expert with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "but an overall doubling of major hurricane activity...
...persist in believing that universities are a local burden, we ought to do what Connecticut did 25 years ago: enact a measure that offers reimbursement to cities for the theoretically lost revenue. New Haven alone gets $32 million from the state to alleviate the supposed burden of Yale and its other major non-profits. Connecticut lawmakers wisely did not want their colleges and universities continually distracted by disputes with local officials...
...fuming over continuing U.S. criticism of Saudi Arabia for its part in the atrocity. While admitting the need for Saudi internal reform, he charges that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - not the Saudi social system - is the "festering ground" for terrorism. He cautions that if misconceptions about Saudi Arabia persist, it may cause an unbridgable gap in long-standing U.S.-Saudi relations. As for America's difficulties in Iraq, the prince says, "We told you so." Excerpts...
...Frequently mispronounce words and persist in using baby talk...