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...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...
...Alpert’s month-old recommendations to get rid of the “compost-like situation” underneath the tray return were followed yesterday...
...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...
...Syria, which has traditionally backed Palestinian "rejectionists," into a new peace initiative, and leaders of the radical Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations have reportedly been summoned to Saudi Arabia to be urged to end suicide bombings. The Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza want Arafat to get rid of the men around him, end corruption and create an administration more responsive to their needs. But that population is also deeply angry at the PA for failing to protect them from the Israeli offensive. A planned visit by Arafat to the devastated Jenin refugee camp was called off Monday...