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...support for his call for a more muscular and simultaneous implementation of all of the Mitchell Report's recommendations (as opposed to the step-by-step approach preferred by the Israelis) and for the Europeans to play a greater mediating role. But while they'll cluck sympathetically at his plight, the Europeans are for the most part making clear to Arafat that they're not going to be his cavalry, and that the prospects for a cease-fire depend on him, Sharon and the Bush administration...
...sports, dreams do come true. Bourque gave himself a chance to make some magic when he painfully requested a trade out of Beantown. Bostonians know all too well the plight of great players not winning titles, and Bourque was not going to let himself be another victim without a fight...
...PAKISTAN Refugees Suffer The plight of 80,000 Afghan refugees living in the squalid Jalozai camp near Peshawar worsened as a heatwave took its toll of the very young. At least 11 children have died from heatstroke, diarrhea and dehydration. Most of the Jalozai refugees are sheltered from sweltering temperatures by little more than plastic sheeting and have inadequate access to water. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have fled their homes in past months to escape a severe drought and the ongoing civil...
...Instead, he says, the congressional battles between now and July won't be over the future of energy, but the present: high gas and electric prices that have constituents screaming, and the public perception that oilmen like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney may be congenitally unsympathetic to their plight...
Miriam Asnes (Opinion, “A Liberation Story?”, April 16), compares the plight of the Palestinians to that of the biblical Israelites enslaved to the Egyptians, who, in her analogy, represent modern Israel...