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...class was as star-studded as any Harvard had seen, featuring a Baseball America “Top 100” prospect, two USA Today honorable mention All-Americans and a future Cape Cod Pitcher of the Year...
...American peace initiative can't be dependent on Arafat and Sharon. But it requires the Israeli and Palestinian people to consider their final destination. The bloodbath of the past month, and the past 18 months, has made the prospect of mutual trust more remote than ever. Breaking the deadlock, then, may require that they put their trust in a third party willing to enforce the reciprocal commitments for years, or even decades, to come. It may be difficult to separate the combatants, now, without an international monitoring or peacekeeping force in which both sides have sufficient trust - that suggests...
...Even more alarming to the Bush administration, though, was the prospect that Israel's operation might destroy prospects from a peace agreement and leave the region in a state of low-intensity war for the foreseeable future. Not only has the Israeli operation deepened the radicalization of the Palestinian population; it may also have mortally wounded the Palestinian Authority's security structures. And those security structures are an indispensable pillar of any cease-fire or peace plan, because they will be responsible for preventing attacks on Israelis. If the current offensive leaves their ability to maintain order impaired, Israel will...
...banned from baseball on many occasions in the early 90s for cocaine use and was once found carrying a gun onto an airplane. Howe though, decides not to come out of retirement. To his disappointment, GM John Hart also discovers that one-time Tampa Bay Devil Rays super-prospect Toe Nash will not be available for this season, as he awaits his trial for theft and the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Louisiana—too bad for the Rangers...
...Still, the prospect of a quick Israeli withdrawal may be as remote as the idea of Arafat suddenly doing more to stop attacks on Israelis. Indeed, U.S. appeals for action from Arafat are rendered somewhat moot by Israeli officials announcing that the Palestinian leader right now can't go to the bathroom without their permission. Sharon has made no secret of his belief that rather than cajoling Arafat to act, the best way to fight terrorism is to prevent him from acting by keeping him entirely isolated. His captivity has made Arafat more inclined to embrace the martyrdom language...