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...Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, which is the biggest danger to the infant peace process in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, is a special case. Its first aim is the destruction of Israel; after achieving that, Hamas would establish a Muslim state on the wreckage as a precursor to a greater pan-Islamic union...
...kill the rapprochement between Israel and the Arabs, the militant Muslim fundamentalist group is probably the greatest threat. An acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement that literally means "zeal," Hamas wants nothing less than the destruction of the Jewish state, followed by the establishment of an Islamic Palestine as a precursor to a greater pan-Arab union. The organization was born in the misery and despair of the teeming refugee camps of the Gaza Strip five years ago, two months after the beginning of the intifadeh. Within three years the fundamentalists that the Israelis had once allowed to exist...
...Harvard promised some time ago that the Project Labor Agreement would be the precursor to a larger discussion of University-wide discretion on the hiring process," says Mark L. Ehrlich, business manager of Local 40. "To date, that hasn't really happened...
...perilously forgetful, almost amnesiac, it's difficult to see her successfully completing an undergraduate thesis, far less a dissertation and a subsequent book. The book which has brought her such acclaim, "The Anatomy of Madame de Montigny," has been embraced by the lit-crit crowd as a "a precursor of post-modern bricolage" which establishes her on the literary circuit...
Largely patched together from back issues of Mondo 2000 magazine (and its precursor, a short-lived 'zine called Reality Hackers), the Guide is filled with articles on all the traditional cyberpunk obsessions, from ARTIFICIAL LIFE to VIRTUAL SEX. But some of the best entries are those that report on the activities of real people trying to live the cyberpunk life. For example, Mark Pauline, a San Francisco performance artist, specializes in giant machines and vast public spectacles: sonic booms that pin audiences to their chairs or the huge, stinking vat of rotting cheese with which he perfumed...