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Life after Arafat will be just as bleak. Because of Arafat’s authoritarian style of governance, no Palestinian leader has had a chance to shore up much support within the Palesinian Authority and few are well known outside of Palestinian Authority (PA) circles. As a result, Arafat’s death/assassination will likely create a power vacuum in the Occupied Territories. Moderate leaders will rush to fill it, but so too will Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Moreover, the fragile coalition of Palestinian groups that make up the PA will likely dissolve, as key figures vie for power. Some...
...Running to the matter-of-fact Wrapped Up in You to the bad-boy exuberance of Beer Run. The problem is he never stops selling. He invests as much in trifles like The Storm ("She's drowning in emotions, and she cannot reach the shore") as he does in Pushing Up Daisies, a tune about his mother's death. Either he's blind to his lyrics' weaknesses or he's using sincerity as a kind of hustle. Regardless, it comes off as crass...
...order to shore up his Pashtun base before taking office, Karzai needs to ease the Taliban out of Kandahar - even if they're not exactly destroyed as a fighting force. Indeed, Karzai's political version includes drawing repentant moderate Taliban leaders into a future political arrangement. Also, he can't afford to alienate the Pashtuns, or wider Afghan constituencies, by appearing to simply do the bidding of the U.S., which is not overwhelmingly popular even among anti-Taliban elements. Karzai pointedly told the BBC he had not discussed Mullah Omar's fate with Washington, insisting "this is an Afghan question...
Earlier this year, Rock Bottom Restaurants Inc. bought out the Brew Moon chain. The company has already converted the Brew Moon at Braintree in North Shore Plaza. Rock Bottom currently owns 86 restaurants nation-wide...
...weeks across a stormy North Atlantic, on a crowded, smelly ship whose crew included the first Asians and blacks Andris had ever seen. When the refugees got to Brooklyn, they couldn't see the Statue of Liberty. Never mind. Andy Grove began a new life on an opposite shore of history...