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...help people find common ground on complex issues--abortion, welfare reform, Medicaid--the media play up conflicts and cross fires in a quest for entertaining, diverting drama. "By choosing to present public life as a contest among scheming political leaders, all of whom the public should view with suspicion, the press helps bring about that very result...
...April 1992, Israeli security first began seeking Ayyash, a native of the village of Rafat in the West Bank, on suspicion of his involvement in armed attacks by the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas. A year later, Palestinian guerrillas for the first time resorted to suicide attacks in the fight against Israel. An electrical-engineering graduate of the West Bank's Bir Zeit University, Ayyash allegedly built the device used in the initial blast, at a West Bank diner popular with Israeli soldiers. For the next three years, the tactic was used repeatedly, causing the deaths of 77 victims...
...them--1,000 in the American sector-to-be--have been fighting in Bosnia on the side of their fellow Muslims but under the effective control of no one. Many are radical fundamentalists from such countries as Iran, Afghanistan and Syria who view all Westerners, especially Americans, with suspicion and hostility. Under terms of the peace treaty, all unauthorized foreign forces, including the mujahedin, are to get out of Bosnia within 30 days. Undoubtedly some will. But Pentagon officials are worried that others will go underground. U.S. officials point out that the 20,000 American troops will be spread...
...order to prevent his estate from going to a greedy and conniving relative. Sergeant Meryll sets Fairfax free and orchestrates a totally unbelievable switcheroo which involves Fairfax posing as Phoebe's brother and taking up his position as a Yeoman of the Guard, allowing him to roam freely without suspicion. in a healthy dose of expletives, tacky clothes, a dangerous audience and it's as if you're in 16th-century Ricki Lake or Rolanda territory. But the scenario actually belongs to the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players' fall contribution to the Agassiz stage, The Yeomen of the Guard...
...went for naught after Daiwa reported Iguchi's activities to Japanese regulators on Aug. 8 and finally told Washington on Sept. 15. "This investigation is continuing," a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan acknowledged last week. Wall Street watchers don't doubt it. Their suspicion: Daiwa's Keystone cover-up that failed may have more reels full of capers...