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...real dispute between Sharon and the Palestinians is over land. The Israeli leader has made clear he accepts the inevitability of a Palestinian state and knows Israel can't sustain a regime of occupation over the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza. The question is where the boundaries between such a state and Israel will be drawn, and what will become of the settlements Israel has built on the territories conquered in 1967 which are the basis of the new Palestinian state...
...tried to put enough pressure on early so that other crews couldn’t stay with us,” Blomquist said. “About halfway through we were about to create a margin and rhythm that [other boats] could not sustain. We were going into the race thinking that Washington, Cal or Wisconsin would be pushing us the entire way down the course. Granted we were pushed but we didn’t really have to go out of our selves to win the race...
...divorce lawyer who's also a budding Cupid. It's from "Sex and the City" creator Darren Star, which is promising, but while the premise sounds like it might hold out for 90 minutes' worth of a feature romantic comedy, we'll have to see if it can sustain a series. Finally, "The Lyon's Den," the long-awaited return to TV of Rob Lowe - after, what, three days? - is a legal thriller set in Washington, D.C. whose ultimate storyline, frankly, escaped me. It involved Lowe's being torn between doing legal-clinic work to help little people and running...
...above a whisper? Certain passages of the U.S.A. Patriot Act. Librarians are among the most vocal opponents of the law, taking particular exception to Section 215, which they claim makes it easier for the government to search library records. "A big part of the public library system was to sustain democracy so people could make up their own mind about things," says Carolyn Anthony, director of the Skokie Public Library near Chicago. "Aspects of the act compromise this...
...Norton, an American lawyer and longtime environmentalist who co-heads TNC in Yunnan, believes the area around Yubeng can sustain both conservation and tourism. He informs me that at Yellowstone, one of the U.S.'s busiest national parks, 90% of some 3 million annual visitors stray no more than 100 meters from the road and most of the tourists stay in the park for less than an hour...