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...quadriplegic under house arrest. But it's never been harder to quell the activists of Hamas. When armed police from Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority moved in to surround the Gaza City home of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of the movement whose name means zeal, calls rang from the loudspeakers of local mosques, "Go and rescue Sheik Yassin!" The security men were greeted with a hail of stones and occasional gunfire from several thousand defiant Hamas loyalists determined to show Arafat, just like Israel, how much they have become a force to be reckoned with...
...N.Y.S.E.'s Bob Zito, who filters the requests, says the first five months of 2002 are almost booked. As a courtesy, Zito will call the volunteers on a bad market day to let them bow out, rather than be publicly tarred with a bearish brush. (President Clinton never rang the bell; his advisers warned him that the image would be replayed endlessly if the market dropped.) But while ringing was once limited mainly to heads of state and tony Wall Street types, things have got loosey-goosey lately. Since Sept. 17, when a phalanx of leaders appeared to help instill...
When it turned out that as many as 15 of the 19 suspected hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, alarm bells rang in Washington and Riyadh. Although Osama bin Laden himself is a Saudi - or, was, until the government stripped him of his nationality in 1994 - the Kingdom has never been seen as a breeding ground for terrorists...
...learning curve, Gwens scores surged in the months of October and November. After rising so much that she became the most improved in her training class, she headed back to her company-subsidized apartment for a day off before her real work would begin. But that morning the phone rang and the thudding words fell into her earshe no longer had a job; her severance package would last a month; her apartment home was no longer...
...installation concluded as the bells of the city of Cambridge rang for the third time in honor of a Harvard president taking office, the first time since 1909 and the inauguration of A. Lawrence Lowell, Class...