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...Strategic necessity and shifting political reality created a survivor's flexibility in Arafat's politics. Out in the wasteland of his exile in Tunisia, he saw the limits of military and diplomatic efforts based in the Palestinian refugee Diaspora - they could claim headlines, but ultimately do little to displace Israeli power in pursuit of the goal of Palestinian sovereignty. In 1988, for the first time, Arafat led his organization to advocate a two-state solution to the conflict, based on creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza rather than insisting on the implausible goal of ?liberating...
Within a few months in the year 2000, CBS debuted two series that not only turned around a limping network but also reshaped network TV. The effect of the first--Survivor--and of the dozens of reality shows that followed it was quick and obvious. But the second--CSI: Crime Scene Investigation--got little initial attention, even from CBS. CSI proved a dream marriage of the edgy and the safe: an old-fashioned whodunit, set in sexy Las Vegas, that wouldn't alienate CBS's Murder, She Wrote demographic but geeky enough--scientists wielding swabs, not guns--to attract...
Last September saw the tenth anniversary of the passage of the Violence Against Women Act, which authorized nearly $5 billion towards survivor support services, prevention efforts, training for legal and medical personnel and other important programs. Renewing the act before it expires next year will provide more vital resources, but to make truly significant progress, we all need to take steps to change our culture and take domestic violence more seriously...
...three losses—against Dartmouth and Columbia—were broadcast on the station. Harvard’s next appearance on YES comes on Nov. 6 against the Lions…Brown announced the establishment of the Lawrence Rubida Trust during a halftime ceremony. With cancer survivor and former Buffalo Bills coach Marv Levy in attendance, Rubida—an offensive lineman and tri-captain who suffers from Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare and aggressive bone cancer—was presented with a check by Brown coach Phil Estes that will defray the costs of his treatment...
ESSAY: Advice for Clinton from a bypass survivor: don't laugh...