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...grind with monotheistic religion, decided he wasn't happy about students at his daughter's school standing to say the Pledge each morning. So he took the Sacramento school district to court, charging the Pledge violated the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution, which dictates a strict separation between church and state...
...Ariel Sharon is coming to the White House feeling lucky, because he believes that President Bush's domestic political concerns sets strict limits on the extent to which the U.S. is able to pressure Israel. The Bush administration recognizes that protecting its interests throughout the Middle East requires rapid progress towards settling the conflict by creating a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza. But Sharon has made abundantly clear that he's not interested in any near-term political settlement nor in any version of Palestinian statehood that would satisfy even the most moderate Arab and Palestinian leaders...
...ruling continues the Court's drift away from imposing strict separation of church and state, as evidenced in recent decisions allowing Bible clubs to meet on school grounds and providing textbooks for religious groups on public school campuses. The Court split on its traditional conservative/swing bloc lines as Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote the opinion for Justices O'Connor, Scalia, Thomas and Kennedy...
...compromise proposal: a "provisional" Palestinian state without defined borders to be established in the coming months, providing the Palestinians meet strict security and reform benchmarks (a killer proviso, in the minds of many observers). And all the tough questions, such as Jerusalem, refugees, settlers and future borders would be left for negotiations between Israel and the new entity over a three-year time frame. In other words, Oslo II but the Palestinian entity is called a "provisional state" rather than an "authority." No wonder the proposal has raised scant enthusiasm on either side of the divide. The Palestinians and Arab...
...been bumping up Malaysia's grades. More important, foreign investors are actually putting their money?so long withheld?back into the country. A recent bond issue by Malaysia's national oil giant Petronas was heavily subscribed. The Kuala Lumpur stock market?shunned by international investors after Mahathir temporarily imposed strict controls on the movement of money out of Malaysia in September 1998?has soared, rising about a third over the last year, a period during which Basu estimates that as much as a billion dollars has poured in from overseas. "When Malaysia is working well and hitting all the sweet...