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...well, biblical proportions. Three right-wing Jewish militants were arrested Thursday after distributing leaflets urging Jews to expel Muslims from the hill, which is also home to Islam?s third holiest site, the Al Aqsa Mosque. The Jewish extremists ? who want the Islamic sites razed in order to rebuild the Jewish temple destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70 in the belief that it will hasten the Messianic era ? were egged on by a handful of American evangelical Christians, some of whom believe the rebuilding of the temple will hasten the Second Coming. But the Israeli authorities are well aware...
...been handed over. "If you can?t reintegrate people into a viable economy and society, then you?re bound to have another explosion in the region," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Dealing with that explosion will prove a lot more expensive than the development aid necessary to rebuild the region." The U.N. may have been left on the sidelines when NATO went to war, but now it's being asked to clean up the debris and heal the wounds ?- and it?s not going to let the West get away with trumpeting a moral victory on the cheap...
...approach isn't a foreign policy panacea, however. The U.S. and NATO still have to figure out how to engage the Russians, for example. And NATO will still need to rebuild Kosovo--to say nothing of devising a long-term solution to the problem of dealing with Milosevic. And for all its simple charm, the new triple-if doctrine doesn't answer one other crucial if: What do you do if American soldiers start to die in battle? Without an answer to that question, the Clinton doctrine may be as short-lived...
...absurd. Whatever the end, the people who used to live in Kosovo will be worse off than before the war. So what will happen now? I hope Milosevic will step down for the good of his people, and the Europeans--not nato--will step in and help rebuild the country. DIANELOS GEORGOUDIS San Jose, Costa Rica...
Harvard has pledged to renovate Widener Library, Harvard Hall, Holden Chapel and University Hall, rebuild the clock tower atop Memorial Hall, construct a home for its newly inaugurated center for Genomics and Proteomics, and revising its plans for the Knafel Center for the Social Sciences...