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...Jerusalem should serve as the capital of Israel and East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state. Israel's official position is that it will never cede control of any part of the city. For their part, the Arabs on the panel agreed that the city would be split in a way that would "reconcile existing realities," an implicit suggestion that Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem be incorporated into Israel's portion of the city. "There is ideology and there is reality, and we have to be realists," said JOSEPH GINAT, an anthropologist at Haifa University who initiated...
...forced to get together at Thanksgiving and for some reason - old family history, or maybe it's that one of them beat out the other for president of the student council a long time ago - cannot refrain from whining at each other, just this side of nastiness, as they split hairs over health care in a manner that reduces already tedious policy-wonking to "Did so," "Did not," "So's your...
...split into six working groups, each of which is scheduled to submit two volumes of studies to the WHO by the middle of 2001. The commission will issue its final report by the end of that year...
...genes. When the millionaire molecular geneticist announced in 1998 that his company, Celera Genomics, would do the job in a third of the time at no cost to the taxpayer (thereby making the Genome Project seem like a wasted effort), the scientific community was split into two camps--one group of researchers hoping he could make good on his promise, the other predicting he would fall flat on his face...
...occasion that the beauty of his girlfriend was more important than the brilliance of his tax plan. "When we walk into a restaurant, I watch grown men weep," he once said, distinguishing himself from those politicians who are forced to move voters through their oratory. But last week Trump split from the envy-inducing Slovenian model MELANIA KNAUSS because, according to associates, he felt the need to focus on his campaign. And in fact, a day later, he was back on the stump, pressing the flesh with 32 young ladies from the Miss U.S.A. pageant. Hey, beauty contestants are voters...