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...return of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Then in 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon in an attempt to wipe out the Palestine Liberation Organization once and for all. For the first time, Israel launched a war for essentially political reasons, not because its immediate survival was at stake but as part of a larger design to alter the distributions of power in the region. The business of peacemaking fell into disrepair. Ultimately, last December, the Israelis' repressive hand in the occupied territories stirred the Palestinians to their current fury of rebellion. Last week what the Palestinians call the intifadeh...
When winning is at stake. We play bocce, croquet. You can't believe how serious a wonderful lawn game can become when you play it with the Wilson brothers...
...number of overseas listings in New York, according to consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers. London's smaller domestic business means that "if you're going to flourish, you have to look around," says Richard Lambert, director general of British business lobby group the cbi. Likewise, London is building on an already leading stake in international bank lending and over-the-counter derivatives, and foreign equity trading. Attention-getting statistics like that helped motivate nasdaq to launch a $5.3 billion hostile takeover bid for the lse in November. In a high-drama war that's playing out in the British newspapers...
...exchange's markets hit all-time highs last year. With its own share price more than tripling in the last three years to around $25.4, lse's board swatted away nasdaq's bid of $24.4 a share as "wholly inadequate." nasdaq which has already built up a 28.8% stake in lse, has until Feb. 10 to persuade the lse's shareholders otherwise...
...generally favor stand-off tactics like suicide bombings, mortar attacks and roadside bombs, make a target of themselves by massing hundreds of fighters deep in the Shi'a heartland? Why would Shi'a militias, which thrive on the support of the towns and neighborhoods from which they spring, stake a claim to a patch of farmland outside Najaf...