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...response for the Israelis to a day-to-day security crisis which has scarcely eased since "Operation Defensive Shield" and the ongoing Israeli operations in West Bank towns that have continued ever since. While some of them support the idea, Israel's security chiefs don't believe that getting rid of Arafat will stop terror attacks. The Palestinian leader's political popularity and authority has plunged precipitously since his last siege was lifted, because of the perception on the Palestinian street that he cut deals to secure his personal freedom while the circumstances of ordinary West Bank Palestinians continued...
...goal is to find peace," says Cilley, 46. "And getting rid of stuff helps you find peace." That may sound a tad simplistic, but try telling that to the 100,000 devoted followers on Cilley's online mailing list, many of whom insist that her e-mails changed their life. "I used to end each day feeling inadequate and miserable," says Joy Critchfield, a mother of four who joined the list last April. "Now I wake up excited to be alive." And while there is no shortage of organizational guides for sale in bookstores, or professionals who will...
...Lately, all-out war has also become increasingly attractive to India. Vajpayee's limping, pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government is only too aware of the restorative powers of a good fight. War talk and fulminations against Muslim militancy have successfully rid India's newspapers of reports of the excesses of the BJP's hard-line supporters in Gujarat, where more than 1,000 Muslims have been killed in a 10-week religious pogrom. Conflict and crisis also allow India to ignore the average Kashmiri's main complaints: the nagging injustice of Indian rule, rigged elections, rampant official corruption...
After years of preparation, Harvard libraries will unveil a new web-based catalog this summer that will provide users with a slew of new features—but will rid the system of telnet access...
...understandable that Yasser Arafat would be reluctant to embrace reform in the Palestinian Authority; after all, it would ultimately limit his personal power. For Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon PA reform is code for getting rid of Arafat - the Israeli leader went so far, this week, as to suggest that the U.S. and its allies oust Arafat and "impose" an "interim government" on the Palestinians. But Sharon is unlikely to have much influence over the remaking...