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...anger. With good reason. Much of the rage was aimed at Arafat's police for failing to protect Salim and Mansour. Within hours of the attack, Arafat's security court sentenced three men to death for allegedly collaborating with Israel. The judicial process was not much less swift or more formal than actions on the streets of West Bank towns; in the three days after the Israeli attack, lynch mobs murdered four other suspected collaborators. Hamas vowed it would take revenge. This terrible summer, the number of victims grows, and then grows some more...
...mother of three daughters, I’m glad they’re going to have role models in the area of athletics that has traditionally been dominated by men,” Swift said...
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Acting Gov. Jane Swift made the announcement official on Monday morning. Swift, a former high school basketball player in North Adams, cited the positive influence that high-profile female athletes would have on the community...
...pumping too fast, the defibrillator portion will release longer bursts in quick succession to slow it down. And if it starts beating dangerously fast--more than 200 beats per minute--Gem III DR will restart it with a jolt measuring a few hundred volts (enough to feel like a swift kick in the chest...
Milosevic's swift transfer may have the perverse effect of forestalling a moral catharsis within Serb society. The Serbian government's dash to deliver its former leader in time to procure international aid has made the country's compliance with the war-crimes tribunal seem a matter of economic self-interest rather than collective responsibility. "The war-crimes issue has turned into a financial issue in this country," says Latinka Perovic, a Belgrade historian. "We have a moral duty to do away with the history of crimes, but I've heard precious little about these in recent weeks...