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Shleifer, the Jones professor of economics, emerged far less scathed in the settlement, agreeing to pay just $2 million. He had faced damages of up to $104 million for conspiring to defraud the government while advising a U.S.-funded program to privatize the Russian economy in the 1990s...
...crew of Palestinian laborers chops the long green stems from Michael Goldschmidt's amaryllis bulbs in his stuffy hothouse. Goldschmidt, 57, sells the bulbs, grown in the Ganei Tal settlement in the Gaza Strip's Gush Katif bloc, for a dollar. After export to the U.S., the plants go for almost $70. With Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's withdrawal from Gaza set for next month, Goldschmidt is taking as many of his 300,000 bulbs out of the ground as he can, in spite of his desire to stay in the place he's lived for 28 years. ?I absolutely...
...most aggressive protesters against police action in Gaza so far have largely been imports from West Bank settlements. Some of these outsiders now populate an abandoned seafront hotel, which police reckon may be one of the toughest spots to evacuate. The Palm Beach Hotel is a dilapidated, low, white building, surrounded by portable toilets and topped by a camouflaged army guard post. The militant ethos of the hotel squatters has less in common with the prevailing attitudes in the Gaza settlements than it does with the atmosphere in the northern West Bank settlement of Sa-Nur, where military officials believe...
...That's not to say it isn't a wrenching moment for the Gaza settlers. The pullout strikes at the heart of their religious beliefs. Sharon's plan has caused a crisis in religious Zionism, the messianic movement that has driven Israel's massive settlement expansion of the last three decades, by shattering its basic tenet - the secular Israeli state is no longer serving as a vehicle for restoring Jewish possession of the Biblical Land of Israel, which they believe is an essential condition for the coming of the Messiah...
...that the North must make "a strategic decision" to give up its nuclear weapons. But, asks Balbina Hwang, a North Korea expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., "What if they have?and their strategic decision is not to give up their nukes?" In that case, prospects for settlement of this crisis will remain as dim as the lights in Kim's benighted kingdom...