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...Western governments concerned to avoid a new escalation of hostilities will likely pressure on Arafat to do more to rein in the militants. But the apparent collapse of his most strenuous effort to date suggests that even if he can muster the political will to press the case, the Palestinian leader will find it increasingly difficult to impose it on the streets. Hamas derisively asks what Arafat has achieved for the Palestinians in exchange for the cease-fire, and even grassroots leaders of his own organization ostentatiously, and publicly, defy his exhortations. Indeed, it is worth noting that the Hadera...
...politics are a factor, then the maids are doomed. They have few backers in a society where there is little respect for menial labor. "Folding my shirts is not strenuous work," says Joseph Law, spokesperson and founder of the Hong Kong Employers of Overseas Domestic Helpers Association. "A lot of hours of their day are spent doing things like ironing and shopping. That isn't exactly taxing." A retired civil servant, Law is lobbying for the maids to receive a 15% pay cut on the grounds that their home currencies are devalued and Hong Kong's economy is weak...
...with a large wooden stick, then allow Wood to thrash him in return. “They beat each other like carpets,” Morris writes. Roosevelt was a perennial child, a condition that in its best moments meant a great lust for anything new, active, original or strenuous...
...with a large wooden stick, then allow Wood to thrash him in return. “They beat each other like carpets,” Morris writes. Roosevelt was a perennial child, a condition that in its best moments meant a great lust for anything new, active, original or strenuous...
...Arab world that the most powerful nation on earth is vulnerable. Bin Laden has always believed that a showdown between Islam and the West is inevitable, and the strikes were also calculated to provoke a retaliation that could be painted as an attack on Islam. And despite the strenuous efforts by Bush and Blair to dispel such fears, the danger is that images of civilian suffering in Afghanistan might turn Arab and Muslim public opinion increasingly against the U.S. campaign...