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When Jalal Sharaf casts his vote for a new Palestinian President this Sunday, he won't pay much attention to the candidates' positions on Israel or the future of the peace process. Sharaf, 41, has worked only six months since the beginning of the intifadeh in September 2000. He lives with his wife and eight children in a shack on Block 4 of the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza. They subsist on $7 a day scrounged from relatives. Desperate though it sounds, the family's predicament is hardly rare in Gaza's slums--and it is why Sharaf plans...
...Palestinians like Sharaf, the election on Jan. 9 may represent the best chance in years to chart a new direction, away from Arafat's legacy of conflict and misrule and toward a more prosperous, peaceful future. Abbas, 69, popularly known as Abu Mazen, has pledged to curb violence and exact agreements from Israel to ease conditions in the occupied territories. That position has earned him the backing of the U.S. and the support of a majority of likely voters, for whom the election is as much about putting food on the table as it is about ideology. Polls show Abbas...
Other winners include Katherine Sharaf ’02, Sarah Tsien ’02, Jesse Billett ’01, Jennifer Wagner ’01 and Daniel Yamins...
...Lautz, Jonathan L. Lee, Janice M. Leung, Conor M. Liston, Rochelle P. Lundy, Catherine A. Marlantes, Nicole M. Martin, Deirdre A. Mask, Philip J. Matchett, Ethan M. Merlin, Sarah E. Moss, Alec J. Nevala-Lee, Emily N. Ogden, Joshua L. Passman, Parag A. Pathak, Devon R. Quasha, Katherine E. Sharaf, Timothy F. Sohn, Pauline Tsai, Brooke J. Wagner, Silas L. Wang, Andre D. Williams, James L. Wilson, Lindsey O. Worth...
...Sharaf, one of 10 Cabot House residents admitted to Stillman for a hospital stay after last month's outbreak of viral gastroenteritis, said she was unaware that her stay would not be covered under the UHS fee, required of all students as part of the tuition package...