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...question, the best question you can ask about the event is: Were there any Jews in the vicinity? The paradigmatic case is the page in the International Herald Tribune that devoted seven of its eight columns to the Palestinian uprising. Among the headlines: "Israeli Soldier Shot to Death; Palestinian Toll Rises to 96." The eighth column carried a report that 5,000 Kurds died in an Iraqi gas attack...
...Hama, the town where Syria dealt with an Islamic uprising by killing perhaps 20,000 people in two weeks and then paving the dead over; and Black September (1970), during which enlightened Jordan dealt with its Palestinian intifadeh by killing at least 2,500 Palestinians in ten days, a toll that the Israeli intifadeh would need ten years to match...
Last night, the Crimson climbed back onto the ice, and the travel had obviously taken its toll. Harvard suffered a 4-2 defeat at the hands of Dartmouth at Thompson Arena in Hanover...
Though New Delhi and Islamabad lodged strong protests with each other, they were careful not to overplay the affair, fearing that would only inflame passions. In Kashmir, meanwhile, seven people were killed last week in clashes between police and demonstrators, raising the toll in the 18-month-old uprising...
...pressure took its toll on the Quakers, as they missed 10 of 30 free-throw attempts, shooting only 4-for-8 in the final seven minutes...