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...Sarasra's house had been born in hope. For two decades, Sarasra, a schoolteacher, worked in the United Arab Emirates, saving his wages to one day build a place in his hometown in the West Bank. Finally, three years ago, encouraged by the prospect of Palestinian self-determination and peace with Israel, Sarasra returned to Beit Jala and built his simple house of cinder block and poured concrete. It was to be a home for his children and the families they would raise in the independent Palestinian state Sarasra thought would come soon. But in one night that idea turned...
...position backed by its accountant Ernst & Young, which reaffirmed its opinion after the Washington Post brought the transactions to light last month. The investigation is in its earliest stages; in fact, Justice Department lawyers and officials at AOL haven't had a face-to-face meeting yet. But the prospect of the DOJ's worming its way through any company sits uneasily on the minds of investors, who sliced AOL's stock price in response...
...moat: three young men ask the parents', especially Dad's, permission to court their daughter. Yes, Meet My Folks plans to air some episodes with eligible sons instead of daughters, and on next January's The Bachelorette, a young woman will propose to 1 of 25 prospective beaus. (The lucky lady is Trista Rehn, 29, the former Miami Heat dancer who finished second on The Bachelor--or won, depending on how you define success.) But is it a coincidence that these shows started off with women as their objects? Bachelor creator Mike Fleiss doesn't think sexual double standards will...
...exports. But although the British wine market has been expanding regularly for the past decade, France's share of it shrank from 33% in 1995 to 26% last year. Meanwhile, the New World's share rose from 15% to 37%, more than half of it from Australia. The prospect of being marginalized in one of the world's few growth markets has convinced the French that they need a shake...
...lopsided division of labor: the U.S. does most of the actual fighting (preferably from the air) and the E.U. keeps the peace. Or, to put it in less flattering terms, the Americans make the dinner, and the Europeans do the dishes. But with the Bush Administration serving up the prospect of a fresh invasion of Iraq, Europeans are increasingly alarmed at the size of the mess they might be asked to clean...