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...adjacent Israeli neighborhood. And last Friday, following a suicide bombing that killed 15 people in Jerusalem, Israel had seized control of Orient House, the Palestinians' unofficial headquarters in East Jerusalem. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned Tuesday that these actions were the price of Yasser Arafat's failure to rein in suicide bombers. The Palestinians greeted them as a declaration of war. And the United States urged restraint on both sides...
...returns to jail, e-book publishers will have free rein to use Adobe's security restrictions on what little e-book market there is. If he returns to Moscow, Silicon Valley will breathe easy and more of us may end up reading e-books on our computers. Whether we will have paid for them is another question entirely...
...There's a growing assertiveness on the part of Bush administration critics in the Senate about using their muscle to rein in the White House on foreign policy issues...
...speech signaled a growing assertiveness on the part of Bush administration critics in the Senate about using their muscle to rein in the White House on foreign policy issues. Missile defense may be the most immediate flash-point, but the administration also faces criticism over global warming. Last week, Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman issued a joint statement criticizing the Bush administration's isolation from international negotiations over measures to curb global warming, and urged the U.S. to set mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions. A rejection of the very principle of mandatory caps had prompted President Bush...
...foreign policy imperatives. Overwhelming support for Israel on Capitol Hill may be a reason for the Bush administration to avoid any positions that may be deemed inimical by Prime Minister Sharon, but Washington's allies in the Arab world have been incensed by the reluctance of the U.S. to rein in the Israelis. The U.S. has been forced to call off new air raids against Iraq because it's unable to find support for such action from Saddam's moderate Arab neighbors. Tension between domestic and regional concerns may become acute in the coming weeks as the State Department develops...