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...have the Israelis been in disrupting the terror network of Hamas, the militant group responsible for most of the bomb attacks in Israel this year? Quite effective, it appears. Israeli intelligence officials tell TIME that since the start last spring of the West Bank offensive known as Operation Defensive Shield, 98% of the members of Hamas' military wing who are known to them in the area have been killed or arrested--a total of 70 men. With the Israeli army still in or around every West Bank town, it's no longer possible for cells to organize across different areas...
Philip Bobbitt is the author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History
...decade-long case pitting veterans against Dow Chemical, Monsanto and the U.S. government over the use of a toxic defoliant in Vietnam--in six weeks. Soon other judges and lawyers were asking him to step between warring parties, and in cases ranging from the faulty birth-control device Dalkon Shield to asbestos exposure, Feinberg got the job done, more or less inventing the field of mass tort mediation as he went along. "The secret to Ken's success," says a judge who has worked with Feinberg on a number of occasions, "is that he knows when to listen and when...
...Monk move is also a sign of how the status lines between cable and broadcast TV have faded. Recently, most of TV's acclaimed, successful new dramas have debuted on cable (The Shield, Six Feet Under), while the networks' new success stories--The Bachelor, American Idol, Dog Eat Dog--are reality shows that might once have gone to cable. Says usa president Doug Herzog: "[Cable is] not the sorry sister or the B team. We can create first-rate programming...
Early in the fighting, Palestinian children watched countless reruns of news footage that captured the death of Mohammed al-Durra, 12, even as his father used his own body to try to shield the boy from a barrage of bullets. "In their games, children identify with the martyr," says Dr. Eyyad Sarraj, a psychiatrist who heads the Gaza Community Mental Health Program. Psychologically, he says, "they have left their fathers for the martyrs." A cult of death has appropriated a Palestinian generation, but a deep fear underlies it. Today, according to Sarraj, 35% of Palestinian children under...