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Ariel Sharon needed rest. After spending last Wednesday morning in meetings with ministers and security officials at his Jerusalem office, the Israeli Prime Minister decided to go home early. He was due to undergo a heart catheterization the next morning?ordinarily a routine procedure but hardly an appealing prospect for a 77-year-old man recovering from a stroke suffered just a few weeks before. Sharon was driven 56 miles south to his family home, Sycamore Ranch, in the western Negev desert. Friends who talked to him reported that he was in low spirits. At about 9 p.m. he spoke...
...write a book, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. It now appears he may pay a price for the disclosure: last Friday the Justice Department opened an investigation into who leaked the existence of the NSA program to the Times, raising the prospect of Risen's being compelled to reveal the identities of the "nearly dozen" current and former officials who spoke to him about the program or face jail time for contempt of court...
...European Union's gas supplies currently come from Russia), and the U.S. and Japan want to expand business there. So far, political unease hasn't affected growing commercial ties, although that situation could change if Putin's agenda comes into more direct conflict with the West's. If the prospect of Russia using its energy policy to pursue geopolitical goals scares the West, nobody in authority is saying so very loudly. In Washington, the State Department urged both Moscow and Kiev to reach a compromise in the gas-price talks. Spokesman Adam Ereli allowed only that the dispute...
Corporate recruiters, enticed by the prospect of gaining a new perspective on applicants, have begun to utilize the facebook.com to perform the equivalent of a background check. The idea that the popular college networking site is a sheltered space for students to interact with their peers is looking more and more like a myth...
...nonprofit educational institution, the University is exempt from property taxes. Because Harvard’s acquisition of the Arsenal would remove the land from the tax rolls, Watertown faced the prospect of losing a substantial amount of revenue—one-third of its entire commercial tax base—from a site that it had spent a decade redeveloping...