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...larger scale, this will certainly mean a reversal for efforts to revive peace talks. Last Friday, (Israeli foreign minister Shimon) told the Palestinians that Israel would ease the closure of Palestinian areas, and they had started to do that on Sunday. Israel did still retain the right to assassinate Hamas people, however, which they've been doing every day since Sunday...
...them led by the terrorist group Hamas, are only the most recent sign that Palestinian public opinion has grown more militantly anti-American during the recent uprising. Not long ago, Arafat was reported to be considering a power-sharing arrangement with Hamas to ensure his political survival. To retain his international credibility, it was incumbent on Arafat to condemn the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. and to support American action in Afghanistan...
...looks as if Ridge won't have much more authority than Clarke did. Ridge, like Clarke, won't be able to force agencies to spend more on homeland defense. The draft Executive Order circulated last week says the agencies will "retain" that control. Ridge will be able only to coordinate activities and coax other agencies into spending money on his cause. And instead of one person overseeing the fight against terrorism at home and abroad, there will now be two. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was willing to let Ridge run the war in the U.S. against terrorists...
...because we had been through it all together”, he says. “He was very important for me, because we were really the only constants in our lives”. Although Victor tried to immerse himself totally in American culture, Edgar made a conscious effort to retain and display his Sierra Leonian heritage—by keeping his distinctive accent, for example, and playing soccer instead of basketball. Keeping in touch with his father was more difficult. “Dad was still in Sierra Leone, and I began to play scrabble as a way to remind...
...cross-streets, my co-walker pointed out the western views as they accosted us in flashes of sunlight: The listing black stumps of the World Trade towers, the surviving-but-abandoned American Express building. Other, windowless shells whose names I didn?t retain...