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...very status in British society normally invites attention, but that hardly explains the smears and gossip that surfaced as soon as Carey's possible successors were named. It seemed that church factions had already started jostling to get their man in the job, in a scenario right out of the Barsetshire novels of Anthony Trollope, who vividly chronicled the intrigues of 19th century cathedral politics...
...highest degree of determination to be true bearers of the American flag. I hope the governments of other countries in crisis will be able to sense the patriotism and determination with which the American people are restoring their distorted lives, economy and country. But even with the worst-case scenario of the American experience as a frame of reference, many governments will fail to provide leadership to assist their people with diplomatic and practical solutions. VERNON CHALMERS Cape Town...
...before the Hadera attack, a political analyst in the Israel daily Haaretz had set the scenario: "There was no need for a degree in political strategy to make an educated guess yesterday about how this week would go," wrote Amos Harel. "From the first reports about the assassination of Tul Karm's Raed Karmi, any Israeli or Palestinian alumnus of the past 15 months could come up with an accurate prognosis of what would happen: Revenge by Karmi's Fatah colleagues in the West Bank, and a sharp rise in the number of shooting incidents in the West Bank, particularly...
...hard to come up with a scenario for indictment here," says John Coffee, professor of corporate law at Columbia University. "Enough of the facts are already known to know that there is a high prospect of securities-fraud charges against both Enron and some of its officers." He adds that "once you've set up a task force this large, involving attorneys from Washington, New York and probably California, history shows the likelihood is they will find something indictable...
...even the Israeli military reporting a sharp decline in violent incidents since Arafat's speech three weeks ago calling on Palestinians to cease firing, pressure had begun to mount on the Israeli leader to lift his siege of Palestinian areas, freeze settlement activities and move towards renewed negotiations - a scenario anathema to Sharon and his own political base. Now, with the help of some Palestinian arms smugglers and Hamas insurgents, he has managed to nimbly shift the onus back on to Arafat...