Word: stones
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ancient city, dusty and undeveloped but holy to all faiths, is steeped in bloodshed and tension, a tangled maze of roadblocks, cement barricades and metal spikes manned by hundreds of Israeli soldiers to keep militant Jews and militant Palestinians apart. Both sides have grown hard as Palestinians stab and stone the settlers and Jews shoot and vandalize their neighbors in regular tit-for-tat violence...
...after five decades and under immense international pressure, the Swiss stone wall is beginning to crack. Last week in Zurich, Edgar Bronfman Sr., president of the World Jewish Congress, based in New York City, produced a list--secret until recently--of long-ago account holders, and turned it over to a committee set up jointly last May by the Swiss Bankers Association and a coalition of Jewish organizations. The document contains the names, home cities and deposits--totaling $13.5 million--of some 500 account holders as recorded by Swiss Bank Corp.'s New York City office on June...
...University does not directly control HMC, but President Neil L. Rudenstine and Harvard Corporation member D. Ronald Daniel, Robert Stone and Richard Smith are on the HMC board, as are Vice President for Finance Elizabeth C. "Beppie" Huidekoper and Robinson Professor of Business Administration Jay O. Light...
...should be clear by now that this confrontation is not about "stone throwing delinquents" protesting the tunnel, but, rather, Palestinian students and other civilians protesting the worsening of the Palestinian condition. As for accusations of violence, stones were forced to reckon with unadulterated warfare. Palestinian police tried in fact to protect their people but that does not take away from the fact that the sovereignty of all three Palestinian autonomous zones was violated when Israeli tanks and helicopters invaded, thereby underscoring the inutility of the Oslo accords...
...bands in recent years have got bigger faster than the folk-rock group Counting Crows. Its 1993 debut album August and Everything After, tuneful and shot through with existential pain, was embraced by legions of listeners looking for thoughtful, mature rock, and eventually sold over 6 million copies. Rolling Stone promptly labeled the group "the Biggest New Band in America...