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...nine families and two young bachelors. But since Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced plans to evacuate the residents of Sa-Nur this summer, new residents have flooded into the settlement. Now 150 people live here. At the synagogue, Yossi Dagan, the 24-year-old organizing the fight to resist Sharon's orders, fields requests from friends who want to be in Sa-Nur when the army comes to evacuate it. "Sa-Nur was basically abandoned for a while," says Dagan. "Now people are coming to protect us." When Israelis talk about defending themselves, it is usually against Palestinian suicide...
...teaching NFL players how to make money after the whistle blows on their gridiron days. Which means the College finally has a leg up on its across-the-River peers: After all, we’ve been teaching economics to dumb jocks for years...We can’t resist: Visiting lecturer—and the original gadfly—Elvis Mitchell flitted and flirted at Grafton Street last Saturday night at a pre-arranged after-party for a film screening held at the Law School. The dreadlocked one chilled out with a posse of students as a DJ spun...
...Jesse,” many of his passengers reply, seemingly unable to resist his infectious smile...
...have a predominant position in the region. That had to be the bottom line. I wanted to send that message, and putting the weapons on alert did that. We did not so much want to threaten the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons as to indicate that the U.S. would resist them, conventional and nuclear. That was my decision. There's been a lot of second-guessing that it was someone else's. It was mine...
Despite his acceptance of the need for compromise, Buthelezi is by no means Pretoria's pawn. He has threatened force if necessary to resist the white government's efforts to grant KwaZulu "independence," a move that would deprive the Zulus of their South African citizenship as well as of a nationwide political role. In 1981 he refused a government offer to build an administration building for KwaZulu in Ulundi, the capital, fearing that acceptance would indebt him to Pretoria. Instead, the homeland saved $18 million from tax revenues and constructed a building adorned with murals and carved wooden doors that...