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...General Motors touts the CTS as a BMW fighter, and for once, they may be able to sustain the claim. Its 3.2 liter V6 engine is tied to one of the smoothest, tightest automatic 5 speed transmissions around (secret: it's the same transmission offered on the Bimmer 5-series) and the suspension is tuned like a cherished Stradivarius. This baby hums. Best of all: the CTS starts at a mere $29,990 - nicely competitive with its top competitors, the Lexus ES300, the Audi A4 and the BMW 3-series. And the only reason a cop would saunter over...
...wants "closure" on Tiananmen. Her "deputy" in the square, Li Lu, fronts a hedge fund on Madison Avenue. Others have turned away from political confrontation to espouse Christianity as an elixir for China's woes, insisting, despite Buruma's fervent arguments to the contrary, that only Christian countries can sustain democracy. Only a few, like Liu Qing?who spent four of his 10 years in prison forced to sit in complete silence on a low stool with his face pressed against a wall?still make China's political transformation the central goal of their day-to-day work...
...people. Hence the growing concern among diplomats and Israeli leaders of the traditional "peace camp" such as Foreign Minister Shimon Peres to revive the prospect of political negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. This because they believe Arafat has no incentive and little credibility to sustain action against Palestinian radicals in the absence of a visible non-violent alternative for pursuing the universally shared Palestinian objective of ending Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza...
...There'll certainly be no letup in diplomatic pressure on Arafat to sustain his offensive against the Islamists - the very fact of his current actions appears to prove the thesis that the Palestinian leader only acts under extreme pressure. But the perception that the PA is taking political risks to crack down on radicals is likely to raise pressure on the Israelis in the coming weeks for a resumption of political dialogue. Peres has reportedly been meeting with PA officials to discuss a plan under which Israel would withdraw from all over Gaza and allow Arafat to declare a state...
...orphanages, clinics, youth clubs, athletic teams and libraries that Hamas has spread into virtually every corner of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In Nablus before the new intifadeh, 3,700 families received financial help from Hamas; now 7,000 do. Among the services offered are lifetime annuities to sustain the families of suicide bombers recruited from Hamas classrooms and soccer fields. "These guys kill Israelis, but they also secure their families from poverty," says a Hamas activist in the West Bank...