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...Academy of Management is a think-tank comprised of professors and scholars who study management. It publishes a journal six times a year...
Within a 50-yd. radius of the scene, soldiers worked to trace the origin of the shots. Fearing that other shooters might be training their sights on his men, Dagan ordered an armored personnel carrier and a Merkava tank to rumble up to secure a 500-yd. perimeter. The soldiers traced the attack to a Palestinian police post near the road. They found spent cartridges inside; the police were nowhere to be seen. Dagan ordered the post demolished. As darkness fell, the colonel reopened the three-mile road connecting the Gaza Strip's 5,000 settlers to Israel...
...weeks, the latest clashes between Israelis and Palestinians are what Israelis are calling a "near war." Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority is de-emphasizing both the demonstrations that cost so many Palestinian lives in the early weeks of the intifadeh and the rifle assaults on Jewish neighborhoods that drew tank and rocket attacks on Palestinian homes. Instead it seems Palestinian security forces are aiming to hit Jewish settlers and the soldiers who protect them...
...things unless they're pretty darn sure that those things are broke. And the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and climatic catastrophe is far from obvious to the layman. I, for instance, care about global warming, but I don't think about it every time I refill the gas tank of my thirsty old Jeep Wagoneer...
...when I hear someone say that they unequivocally support the actions of the Israeli Defense Force, my heart sinks. It not only sinks because they have failed to understand why the Palestinians have taken to the streets, but because it means they seem to support the use of anti-tank missiles, helicopter gunships and exploding bullets against Palestinian civilians. It tells me that they support the killing of twelve-year-old Mohammed al-Dura, of his father who pleaded with Israeli troops not to open fire and of the ambulance driver trying to rescue them. Many of those wounded...