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...dungeons and touching up turrets, knowing that history sells?along with billable extras such as spa treatments, banquets and hunting lessons. And it's not just pop stars and other celebrities who can afford to swap blue jeans for the blue-blood life. If you and 11 friends can split the minimum $4,565 charge (about $380 each), then the Irish castle of Lismore, tel: (353-58) 54424, is yours for the night. It comes with a butler, a banqueting hall seating 75, a games room and a vintage collection of Vogue magazines that once belonged to Fred Astaire...
...also underlines the two candidate’s ability to work together effectively. Despite the fact that they are not officially running together, council elections allow students to vote separately for president and vice president for a reason, and we encourage students to take advantage of this option and split the Glazer ticket...
...passing. "We are against the candidacy of Marwan because it is contrary to the decision of the central committee of Fatah, which unanimously chose [Mahmoud Abbas]," said Zakariya Zubeidi, Jenin leader of the al-Aksa Brigades. "We will not let anybody, no matter who, create any division or split in the Fatah movement." Zubeidi's views have been echoed by other Fatah militants across the West Bank, and even the hard-line exile Farouk Khadoumi, who remains in Tunis and opposed the Oslo peace process and now serves as the chairman of Fatah, warned Barghouti that staying in the race...
...fundamental split in Palestinian politics right now, in fact, is less the competition between the Islamists of Hamas and the secular nationalists of Fatah, than it is the internal battle within Fatah between Abbas's "Old Guard" - often derisively termed "Tunisians" to mark their returning-exile status - who have dominated the Palestinian Authority and the failed Oslo negotiation process; and a younger generation of activists committed to continuing the intifadah. While Abbas publicly denounces the intifadah as a catastrophic strategic error that has set back hopes of Palestinian statehood, and insists that the Palestinians best hopes lie in doing whatever...
...split in Fatah embodied in the Abbas vs. Barghouti race is not simply a debate over strategic direction; it's also a product of the grassroots backlash against the corruption and cronyism created by Yasser Arafat in his reliance on the politics of patronage to run the Palestinian Authority. It was the first intifadah, which raged from 1987 to 1991, that did more than anything else to ensure Arafat's triumphant return to the West Bank under the Oslo agreements, but the local leadership of Fatah in the West Bank and Gaza, who had risked and sacrificed the most...