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...dropped on the floor. Meanwhile, Palestinian sources say, Arafat is trying to avoid any further violence in the region--though for his own political reasons, not from any fresh resolve for peace. Each terror incident gives more strength to the Islamists of Jihad and Hamas, undermining Arafat's tenuous authority. Diplomatic sources tell TIME that the groups' growing strength has spurred Egypt to try to initiate secret contacts between the U.S. and Hamas but that Hamas rejected the overture...
...situation is still better than it was under the communists, but often for very ordinary people the difference is tenuous. Today, when you travel around Russia, you will see well-stocked shops and stores. Everything is available. And yet the overwhelming majority of the people don't have the money to buy anything. In most societies, people have legal ways and means to apply their minds and hands in order to make money. Most of my countrymen, today, are deprived of that right. They have been reduced to fighting for their survival, and can only afford to live from...
...confusing enough: it is for "trafficking" software prohibited by the DMCA. This does not mean he went around selling it himself, but rather that Adobe was able to buy it through a third party--and his name was listed on that software's copyright page. Yes, that is as tenuous as it sounds. "I hope the government knows something we don't," says former U.S. Attorney John Gibbons, "because it looks like they haven't done their homework...
...Rocket was trying to hit the Mets' Big Bad Blonde with that broken bat, Piazza would have spent the off-season in surgery. And never mind National League v. American League, senior circuit vs. junior circuit - any real All-Star rivalry between the leagues (and it was always tenuous at best) has long since evaporated in a haze of free agency and interleague play...
...smart money says that Israel and the Palestinians will be unable to sustain their current tenuous cease-fire. The reason? The truce arose out of tactical necessity for both sides, rather than being driven by a strategic vision. Israel's gains on the international diplomatic front by holding back from retaliating following the Tel Aviv disco bombing three weeks ago far outweigh any gains it would have derived from launching new air strikes. And for Yasser Arafat, the alternative to declaring a cease-fire was to be cut off from Western financial and diplomatic support and having his administration destroyed...