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...just as the U.S.-led coalition assault began, in hopes of persuading the Arab world that the issue was the Palestinians rather than Kuwait. The gambit failed because Israel refused to be provoked into retaliation and because the U.S. had secured unprecedented Arab support - by pressing Israel to cease settlement activity in the occupied territories, and begin negotiating with the Palestinians...
...Eliezer would also like to use a "Gaza-first" cease-fire as an opportunity to evacuate more isolated settlements there. Such a move has been advocated by the Israeli military for logistical reasons, and by the Labor Party as a means of showing ordinary Palestinians that Israel is willing to address their sharpest grievance in exchange for an end to violence. But Sharon has long been a champion of the settlement movement, and has until now sharply rejected the idea of retreat even from the most isolated settlements in Gaza...
...else: cold, hard cash. As mayor of New York City, Giuliani made $195,000 a year. Now that he is out of office, his vaunted status will enable him to earn $8 million in speaking fees this year alone. The windfall has resulted in Hanover's securing a divorce settlement more favorable than most ex-wives of public servants. Last week Giuliani agreed to pay Hanover $6.8 million, plus her legal fees and child support for their two children. Had the deal not been struck, there would have been a public trial, in which Giuliani's current girlfriend Judith Nathan...
...settlement patterns throughout the city seemed permanent to me. Italians east of me in Bridgeport, blacks north in North Lawndale, Polish and Irish south in Back of the Yards, and white suburbia in the West. The four corners of the hub of my world seemed so clearly drawn. The large, pink, concrete arches on 26th Street welcoming visitors to Little Village seemed like they had always been guarding the neighborhood from unlikely and unpleasant change...
...objecting Wednesday to the delay, prosecutors implied they will likely want to explore a settlement rather than become involved in a complex, expensive case...