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...good news about our role in global warming is that because we are a major factor in the cause, we can actually do something to change things. The bad news? We probably won't. Governments, including that of the United States, have always been hesitant to rein in industrial polluters and the automobile industry. Three years ago, the U.S. Senate balked at the international community's Kyoto Accord, which would have ostensibly reduced emissions and established detailed regulations to control greenhouse gases...
...contain a more profound truth: Yasser Arafat's claim to leadership over the Palestinians has never looked more shaky. Doubts are growing throughout the Middle East over whether the aging, ailing Palestinian leader will be able to deliver on undertakings given to President Clinton at Sharm el-Sheik to rein in militants on his own side in exchange for Israeli troop withdrawals from the entrances to Palestinian towns...
...Even if Arafat is able to rein in the militants over the next day or two, the cease-fire - like the peace process it's supposed to save - is inherently vulnerable to sabotage by the hard-liners on both sides who oppose it. A terrorist bombing or even a dramatic shooting by Hamas or other hard-liners would force Prime Minister Barak, in deep political peril at home, to respond harshly, which would in turn prompt the Palestinian leadership to respond in kind. And another stroll around the Temple Mount by Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon or even more shootings...
...Hank was always clear about why we were there," she says. "Conversations would always revolve around what does a student need. I do remember staff meetings where Hank would rein us in--'We don't really need to know what happened at the end of the party, let's move on.' He was very clear about the level of respect that we owed the students...
...lynching in a dusty West Bank town may have not only dashed the fragile hopes for ending the current violence in the Palestinian territories; it may also symbolize Yasser Arafat?s increasing inability to rein in his own people. After two Israeli soldiers in the custody of the Palestinian police were beaten to death by a mob in Ramallah, Thursday, Israel ratcheted up the ante by firing rockets that destroyed the police station where its men had been held, and at targets in Gaza City, where Arafat was meeting CIA director George Tenet to discuss ways of ending the violence...