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...FEDERAL RACKETEERING CASE AGAINST THE MAJOR CIGARETTE COMPANIES. WHY IS THAT TRIAL SO IMPORTANT? The accountability is now shifting from the state to the federal level. It's kind of a capstone. The states, with the exception of Mississippi, Maine and Arkansas, are a disappointment. Most have used their settlement money for various things other than [educating] children...
Funny how peace slips away. Two months ago, Northern Ireland seemed on the brink of a final settlement. Then the Irish Republican Army was accused of carrying out a $50 million bank robbery in Belfast. Finally, last week, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, said further progress would be impossible until the I.R.A. winds up its activities - and the group responded with an angry statement saying Blair and Ahern were "making a mess of the peace process. Do not underestimate the seriousness of the situation." There's no sign the I.R.A. is planning to return...
While all that was going on, a colony of about 5,000 tenacious Norsemen was suffering a similar fate thousands of miles to the north. They had audaciously established a settlement on Greenland's comparatively mild southern coast, but they too overextended their environment and paid the price. Among many other blunders, they shortsightedly depleted the local forests (deforestation is a major theme in Collapse), which left them without the wood they needed to smelt iron. Icelanders were stunned when Greenlanders sailed into port in ships held together with wooden pegs and baleen instead of nails...
...example, urged the Sunnis to participate on the grounds that an elected government would have "the ability to demand that the Occupying powers depart from Iraq, supporting this stance by their popular legitimacy." Such a call may yet figure in attempts by a new government to broker a political settlement with the nationalist component of the insurgency...
...destroyed the Palestinian Authority? And what of the separation wall, which is destroying the livelihoods of many Palestinians by isolating them from their fields, towns and markets? I doubt that Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat's successor as President of the Palestinian Authority, will be able to arrive at a just settlement with the Israeli government, which is busy building and extending settlements on Palestinian land. The Palestinians may be in for even more disappointment and tragedy. Mike Barnes Watford, England