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...Whether or not it's sustainable or prudent, Sharon's vision of a violent equilibrium certainly makes sense of Israel's military strategy of escalating attacks on the Palestinians and the Syrians in order to force them to rein in militants operating from areas under their control. After all, unlike Barak, he's not looking at the Syrians or the Palestinians first and foremost as negotiating partners right...
...network movies to score big ratings. "The old form of movie-of-the-week isn't appealing to audiences anymore," says ABC executive vice president Susan Lyne. "The quality of cable movies has been a wake-up call." Anderson says network "cable envy" helped give her free rein--within language and time limits--to create Billie in her own style...
...work of the provost's office, however, has had the unfortunate side effect of exacerbating the already tense relations between the central administration and the separate schools. Fineberg's attempts to rein in the various fiefdoms that make up the University has won him some resentment as well as praise...
...Jospin immediately promised to draw conclusions from the results. His first response was to rein in the practice of allowing officials to "accumulate" several elective offices: last week Jospin obliged cabinet members who had won municipal polls to choose between their ministerial portfolios and their mayor's seats. Other changes may be in the offing, as the strong showing of the Greens and the collapse of the Communists may lead Jospin to give the ecologists more weight in his coalition - at the risk of seeing the disgruntled Communists harden their positions on social issues...
...Despite claims of responsibility by Islamist radicals, the Israeli government has directly blamed Yasser Arafat for the latest Palestinian attacks. The substance of that complaint, really, is that Arafat's Palestinian Authority is giving free rein to Islamist terror groups operating in areas under its control. That's hardly surprising. The incentive for Arafat to restrain Hamas and Islamic Jihad had been the peace process itself, and the possibility it created that dialogue could result in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza being replaced with a Palestinian state. That process collapsed last year at Camp David...