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...Pennsylvania Avenue the address for complaints over Israeli behavior. First up: Israel's effort to limit the terms of a U.N. fact-finding mission established to investigate the recent battle at Jenin. Israel is holding off for fear that it is being set up for prosecution or a smear campaign. But European Union commissioner Romano Prodi says he'll use Sunday's Washington summit to press President Bush to "use his influence" to persuade Israel to back down on its "unacceptable" response to a U.N. Security Council resolution backed by the U.S. Even stronger language came from Egypt's President...
...have heard nothing yet. Those who want to debate Yasin should engage him, not just smear him. When Yasin and I spoke right after the controversy began, he told me that none of those who were leading the charge against him had taken the trouble to contact him. Yet the level of argument against him sank to a low not worthy of the Harvard community, especially the misleading attacks regarding the HIS fundraiser...
...have heard nothing yet. Those who want to debate Yasin should engage him, not just smear him. When Yasin and I spoke right after the controversy began, he told me that none of those who were leading the charge against him had taken the trouble to contact him. Yet the level of argument against him sank to a low not worthy of the Harvard community, especially the misleading attacks regarding the HIS fundraiser...
...hard to imagine that the mudslinging and dirty tricks mentioned in "Inside the Oscar Wars" could have influenced any member of the Academy [SHOW BUSINESS, March 25]. To read that there were malicious smear campaigns behind the awards was disturbing. I believe people in Hollywood care more about the honesty of their performances than they do about media stories on the films. Even if, with my Midwestern mentality, I am misled to believe in the integrity of those who make movies, I prefer to remain as I am. JOANNA J. CHENEY Milwaukee...
...resolute Thaksin assured his undoubtedly alarmed audience. The leader's latest revelations came less than a month after it was discovered that his government has been investigating bank accounts of activist groups and journalists who have been critical of the Prime Minister, though far more openly than their smear-from-the-backseat sympathizers. (The probes were supposedly prompted by an anonymous tip to the Antimoney Laundering Office that the journalists were members of a criminal organization.) As far as a fifth column of commuters is concerned, Bangkok's cab drivers claim to be in the dark. "We're a tight...