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For six years, Israel and Egypt have wrangled over ownership of a mere 250 acres of beachfront on the Gulf of Aqaba. To Egypt, Taba was an integral part of the Sinai, retrieved in 1982 under the terms of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. To Israel, it was a popular...
Somehow, I find it hard to visualize Bok and the members of the Board of Overseers furiously scrubbing away at tears caused by the thought of an unwarned African puffing on a cigarette, when the thought of tens of thousands of Africans killed fighting for rights basic to humanity evokes...
They obviously overlooked something. Outside St. Patrick's last Wednesday night, the 6-ft. 5-in. Delgado stripped off his clothes, entered the soaring Manhattan landmark and began to strike worshipers. Police officer James McMann, 50, radioed for help before Delgado knocked him out with a wrought- iron prayer stand...
In downtown Tokyo, people gathered outside the walled and moated Imperial Palace to watch and pray. Tens of thousands lined up to sign visitors' books at the main palace gate and elsewhere throughout the country. Autumn festivals, including Tokyo's Grand Ginza extravaganza, were canceled, as was the 100th-anniversary...
Now, however, the government faces the all but impossible tasks of distributing emergency food aid to tens of millions of people and preparing for the epidemics that are sure to follow. Already hospitals are filled with victims of flood-related diseases, and raw sewage is contaminating water supplies throughout the...