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...three months later, doesn't think the young Palestinian would have been sorry to go. He recalls Said's final words to him after the last interview in that empty building: "Like life, death is a gift." Although it deals with terror and death, Sabbah's book is a plea for peace. He still believes there is hope that the Middle East conflict can be resolved. "The solution to the problem - two independent states - already exists," he says, "and there are many people on both sides who are really sick of fighting." For the majority, life is a greater gift...
...also the Crimson editors and the Harvard community at large. And we wonder why University President Lawrence H. Summers has not come out against this hate speech as he has anti-Semitic hate speech? We say this not as a justification for anti-Semitism, but rather as a plea that the University and those within its bounds fulfill the expectations of respect that even our own president holds so dear...
...about it," says O'Carroll. "The Beit paintings are stolen for bargaining chips. [The thieves] know that they can't offload them, but when they are caught with drugs, or are facing charges on armed robbery, they can use the paintings for bartering. It's an Irish form of plea bargaining." In September the police recovered the paintings from a house in South Dublin. A portrait by Rubens, stolen in Cahill's raid, had turned up in a house in North Dublin a month earlier. The gardaí would not officially say if these finds were the result of tipoffs...
...More than 300,000 hotel and restaurant staff have been laid off, and those who have kept their jobs are working for significantly reduced salaries. Fear reverberates around the island?not fear of another terrorist attack but of the future. "Tell your friends Bali is safe," is the common plea from waiters at near-empty restau-rants, "Tell them to come back...
...Some eight months later, Bassnan's wife Majida wrote to Princess Haifa to make a similar plea - and, in January of 1999, the first series of payments to Majida were sent to an address in Northern Virginia, in care of another party. Majida then apparently moved, and later checks went to an apartment in Baltimore...