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...eatery was suddenly forced to shut on Jan. 12 due to licensing problems. In a statement issued last week, the Cambridge License Commission faulted Z Square for "failure to apply for change of manager, failure to have a current worker's compensation insurance, a noise complaint within the six-month probationary period on their entertainment license, and unpaid police detail." The restaurant is scheduled for a hearing to resolve these issues on Feb. 10. But Taylor said that the restaurant will not return to the JFK storefront, no matter how the hearing goes. Future use of the space will depend...
...What They're Applying for in Australia: When officials at Tourism Queensland published an online posting for a "dream job" as caretaker of Hamilton Island, the agency's website crashed after receiving more than 1 million hits in three days. The job, which pays $100,000 for a six-month stint, involves just 12 hours of "work" each month. Duties include swimming, fishing, snorkeling, producing a blog extolling the area's beauty and fetching mail...
...When Israel struck Gaza in December the Arab moderates initially backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, head of Fatah, while the resisters supported Fatah's bitter rivals, Hamas. Egypt and Saudi Arabia criticized Hamas for triggering the conflict by refusing to extend a six-month cease-fire. But as the death toll climbed and anger rose on the streets of Arab capitals, Saudi Arabia fell silent and Egypt scrambled to find a diplomatic solution...
...also bypass the need to deploy international forces, a move that would complicate any future offensive. Israel ended its 2002 offensive against militants in Jenin and other West Bank cities on its own terms, choosing where to remain deployed and continuing to raid those cities as deemed necessary. The six-month truce that maintained calm in Gaza from June until November last year was never formally codified - each side had its own interpretation of understandings reached with the Egyptian mediator, and there was no publicly agreed text or mechanism for monitoring or arbitrating disputes...
...Even before the Israeli invasion began in late December, Hamas had offered to renew its six-month cease-fire with Israel on the condition that the border crossings from Egypt and Israel into Gaza be reopened. Those crossings have been closed as part of a strategy of imposing economic deprivation on the people of Gaza in the hopes that they would turn on Hamas; Israel remains reluctant to agree to reopen them as part of a cease-fire deal, since that would be claimed as a victory by Hamas. Hamas also insists on a full and immediate withdrawal...